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1413 points mooreds | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 20:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.248s | source
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neom ◴[22 Oct 24 00:08 UTC] No.41909872[source]▶
Some of that zooming in made me feel pretty damn uncomfortable. It really is f'ing massive out there huh. Makes me wonder what this is all about, I'm sure it's something, I wonder what. :)
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layer8 ◴[22 Oct 24 12:18 UTC] No.41913514[source]▶
It’s even more “massive” down below. There are only 27 orders of magnitude between human size and the size of the observable universe, but 35 orders of magnitude between human size and the Planck length. ;)
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lynguist ◴[22 Oct 24 18:16 UTC] No.41917080[source]▶
So we are rather “large” beings and not small ones.

Are these orders of magnitude scaled by 10 to go from one to the next?

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malodyets ◴[22 Oct 24 22:12 UTC] No.41919268[source]▶
Powers of 10 is the classic presentation: https://youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0
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1. statnamara ◴[23 Oct 24 10:28 UTC] No.41923622[source]▶
I haven't seen this in many years, it really is a spectacular way of making you feel the vastness of the universe and the difference in scales.