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I understand that physical bodies can be measured in terms of the volume that their convex hull occupies. If that volume was plotted on a histogram for all the physical bodies in the universe, that would that graph look like?

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By "frequency distribution plot" do you mean a histogram? Also, what qualifies as a physical body? – David Zaslavsky♦ Jun 25 '11 at 21:26
Yes I did mean histogram (edited). I am not sure about the qualification. I mean something that is a collection of objects that are not abstract in their relationship to one another. Things that can be counted. – Matt7952 Jun 25 '11 at 21:47
No way to answer this, but I'm going to guess decaying exponential. (So many big planets, each one has so many continents, full of so many people, full of so many bacteria, etc...) – wsc Jun 25 '11 at 21:57
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thanks for the response... the thing is, without some specific criteria for what constitutes a physical body for your question, as wsc pointed out, it's really impossible to answer. – David Zaslavsky♦ Jun 25 '11 at 22:05
Now that it's too late, and this question is closed, I'll point out that astrophysically it makes a good deal of sense, although this may not be what the questioner meant. The size distribution of gravitationally collapsed and/or virialized bodies in the Universe is a tolerably well-defined thing to talk about and is in fact the subject of considerable research, especially in the large-scale structure community. – Ted Bunn Jun 26 '11 at 15:14

closed as not a real question by David Zaslavsky♦ Jun 26 '11 at 1:53

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