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The discussion centers around the lack of a specific term for the observed trend in the universe where smaller mass objects outnumber larger mass objects. Participants reference Benford's Law, which relates to the distribution of digits rather than mass, and emphasize the importance of defining "huge" and "tiny" in the context of scale. The consensus indicates that the distribution of mass is inherently skewed towards smaller objects due to their composition from multiple smaller entities.

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There's more small stuff than big masses in the universe. Did anyone ever give this trend a name?
I'm presuming some antiquarian noticed that there tends to be loads of tiny mass objects in the universe than huge mass objects. I'm presuming someone somewhere put their name to a trend about this distribution of matter. However, I'm struggling to find a name for it - if there is one. Can anyone help?
 
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See also Benford's Law
 
Brian Turner said:
Summary: There's more small stuff than big masses in the universe. Did anyone ever give this trend a name?

I'm presuming some antiquarian noticed that there tends to be loads of tiny mass objects in the universe than huge mass objects. I'm presuming someone somewhere put their name to a trend about this distribution of matter. However, I'm struggling to find a name for it - if there is one. Can anyone help?

Define "huge" and "tiny". To an ant, a pebble is "huge".

The universe was not designed to be defined simply using our scale.

Zz.
 
mjc123 said:
See also Benford's Law
Careful not to mix it up with the statistical one on the distribution of digits in documents.
 
mjc123 said:
See also Benford's Law
Not sure this is exactly what the OP is referring to. In answer to OP, there has to be (fewer large things that small things), because the large ones are made of multiple small ones.
 

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