@Jason@jason I don't think anyone from the army is saying they're the best burgers in town, but they're an old school Austin staple. It's the kind of place you take the kids' team after a game for food that isn't $$$. Too many ATX places have closed since 2020. It's a shame.
In simple terms:
Let me tighten this up for you, plain and simple—like two buddies chatting over a beer:
•Photons are tiny packets of light. There are about 1.5 × 10^89 of them in the observable universe (that’s a 1 followed by 89 zeros). Almost all of them are ancient leftover glow from the Big Bang, called the Cosmic Microwave Background. Each one is low-energy and weak, but there are so many it adds up huge.
•Baryons are the regular stuff that makes up all ordinary matter—basically protons and neutrons. These build atoms, stars, planets, and us. There are only about 10^80 of them (a 1 followed by 80 zeros). Way fewer than photons.
•The big ratio: For every single baryon, there are roughly 1.6 billion photons. Or put simply: about a billion to two billion photons per bit of real matter.
•Picture it this way: The universe is basically one giant sea of very old, very weak light (photons) with just a tiny sprinkle of actual stuff (baryons) floating in it.
•This huge imbalance has been around since right after the Big Bang. It’s why the early universe was ruled by light, and why just enough matter survived for galaxies, planets, and us to exist.
In short: Photons crush it by a landslide—billions of times more plentiful—but each photon carries almost no weight compared to a proton or neutron. The universe is mostly empty space packed with ancient light and a few specks of matter.
@MattWalshBlog Hard to take advice from a guy who doesn't have older children who ask honest questions about their parents' teen years. Lying to them is worse.