What are there more of: stars in the universe or synaptic nerve junctions in the

Question:The TRUE answer is that no ONE knows how many of either.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The TRUE answer is that no ONE knows how many of either.

8 billion cells in the brain.

500 billion stars in the typical galaxy.

# of galaxies we can see that would be covered by the head of a pin held at arms legnth - 17,000.

The answer is stars.

Stars. It's not even close.

There are about ten billion galaxies that we know about and about ten billion stars in each one. But that's not all...

We can't even SEE the whole universe. Just a region fifteen billion light years or so in every direction. What we see may be just a tiny fraction of all there is. Or it may go on indefinitely.

An adult brain has about a hundred billion neurons. So each one would have to have a billion synapses to even come close to what we see NOW.

Yike.