Space...

mudcow007

Clicky

awesome website that shows how tiny we all are in the grand scheme of things.....

jonginge

I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemists...

Nice site. Cheers, mudcow

whitebait01

Good find!

We're not just tiny though, we're also massive compared to a charm quark.

dhope

I think Assos use strings to weave their bibs

rubertoe

This sort of thing makes my girlfreinds head hurt...

rjsterry

mudcow007 wrote:

Clicky

awesome website that shows how tiny we all are in the grand scheme of things.....

Or how big we are - taller than the Sun if you put us all end to end. In fact are we pretty much in the middle of the scale?

EDIT: No. The scale goes down to 10ˉ³⁵, but up to 10²⁷, so we are just into the 'big' half; the 'middle is at 10ˉ⁴.

rick_chasey

rjsterry wrote:

mudcow007 wrote:

Clicky

awesome website that shows how tiny we all are in the grand scheme of things.....

Or how big we are - taller than the Sun if you put us all end to end. In fact are we pretty much in the middle of the scale?

Presumably that's because we measure everything from our perspective?

So our size = normal. Anything else is either side?

medoramas

It reminded me about that interesting video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDj ... r_embedded

rjsterry

Rick Chasey wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

mudcow007 wrote:

Clicky

awesome website that shows how tiny we all are in the grand scheme of things.....

Or how big we are - taller than the Sun if you put us all end to end. In fact are we pretty much in the middle of the scale?

Presumably that's because we measure everything from our perspective?

So our size = normal. Anything else is either side?

No, the smallest theoretical and largest observable lengths define the extents of the scale. The metre - x10¹ is not at the centre of that range. See my edit above.

jonginge

I'm hungry. Time for a cup of tea and a fairy cake.

Twostage

Very good. I remember one of the gas clouds (think it was the eagle nebula) being on the telly and asking my eldest how long she thought it would take to drive a car from top to bottom (assuming Spongebob Squarepants reality). She guessed about 100 years. I worked it out as something like 100 billion years.
Space doesn't fit in our brain does it ?

notsoblue

What really bakes my noodle is that there is an information horizon thats smaller than the estimated size of the universe.