In the Milky Way, the average distance between stars is about 5 light years, or 30 trillion miles.
The mean radius of the sun is 432,450 miles, so round up and call it a million miles diameter. Triple that out of laziness and you have 3 million.
So a line from center to center would have one star on average once every 10 million star diameters. Put that on a square grid to have one every (10 million) squared or 10^14 star areas (pretending stars are square, less than that for actual shape). This makes it really hard for individual stars to hit each other (one percent of one percent of one percent of one percent of one percent of one percent of one percent, I believe) — although gravity would shift the path of many.
Cliff won’t even need to make a payout — assuming he lives that long.
In the Milky Way, the average distance between stars is about 5 light years, or 30 trillion miles.
The mean radius of the sun is 432,450 miles, so round up and call it a million miles diameter. Triple that out of laziness and you have 3 million.So a line from center to center would have one star on average once every 10 million star diameters. Put that on a square grid to have one every (10 million) squared or 10^14 star areas (pretending stars are square, less than that for actual shape). This makes it really hard for individual stars to hit each other (one percent of one percent of one percent of one percent of one percent of one percent of one percent, I believe) — although gravity would shift the path of many.
Cliff won’t even need to make a payout — assuming he lives that long.