Marilyn's Photos - Oct 13 2026 - The Most Expensive Thing in the World
I thought it would be worth reading what is the most expensive substance on Earth that sells for $140 million per gram. First of all we have to figure out what a gram actually looks like. I measure food ingredients in teaspoons and tablespoons and then in fluid ounces or litres - the measuring cup shows both. I know that we should be using weight for measurement, but volume seems to be the household standard.
So here's what a gram looks like.
Our most expensive thing is a powder named Nitrogen Atom-Based Endohedral Fullerenes. It is used to build accurate and tiny atomic clocks.
Atomic clocks are a key component of GPS systems and the ability to make tiny ones will revolutionize many things, including the potential for driverless cars to make them extremely accurate. And all kinds of things would be transformed. Current atomic clocks are room-sized, so that explains the impact.
Other articles don't agree on the most expensive things. What about antimatter - estimated value $62.5 trillion per gram. The Internationalal Space Station has an estimated value of $150 billion. The British crown jewels are estimated to be $10 billion (some say $4-6 billion), as is the James Webb Space Telescope, and the Yacht History Supreme is estimated to be worth $4.8 billion. Hubble Space Telescope is worth $2.1 billion. There's a residence in Mumbai worth $2 billion (it has an artificial snow room).
It is a bit of a relief to find out that we prize science above most other things. A yacht or a house is an embarrassing "thing" to be worth billions of dollars. But our love of knowledge through exploration is admirable.
I saw a joke headline about what money can't buy:
Money can't buy love. Of course it can, I bought a puppy.
Here's a fabulous view - the Toronto skyline from Charles Daley Park in St. Catharines on an October day.
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