Eddington number

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In astrophysics, the Eddington number, NEdd, is the number of protons in the observable universe. Eddington originally calculated it as about 1.57×1079; current estimates make it approximately 1080. The term is named for British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington, who in 1940 was the first to propose a value of NEdd and to explain why this number might be important for physical cosmology and the foundations of physics.

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