ELI5, wont we run out of “resources” to make more people ?

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Only thing I remember from science class, We cant create things everything transform. So Earth got only “limited” amount of atoms? With the growth of the human population wont we run out of resources/atoms/molecules to make more babies or at the expense of something elese on the planet ?

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The Earth has a mass of about 6×10^24 kg, the average human masses about 70 kg (7×10^2 to use consistent notation). So if you converted all the atoms of the earth into humans (ignoring any losses during transmuting), you’d get about 10^22 people, or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. We currently have about 7 billion (7×10^9 ), so you can see that this is not a situation that’s likely to happen soon, if ever.

Also you can change 1 atom into another, but that would be a physics question.

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