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The scale of things

ewgfewgf
edited October 2011 in Chit chat
Apologies if this is already on the forum, I can't remember which forum I found the link on, but this site gives you a slide box that shows you the difference in sizes between the smallest, and the largest, things that exist.

One surprising thing is that the smallest thing the human eye can see is round about the exact half-way point between the largest thing in the universe (the universe itself), and the smallest (the quantum energy that is the most basic thing in the universe).

BTW,the site lists the universe as being 930 YM. The 'YM' means yottametres, and 1 yottametre is equal to one hundred and ten light years (1 YM = 110 light years), thanks to my big brain (alright, Wikipedia) for that.


http://htwins.net/scale/
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  • WookieeWookiee
    edited October 2011
    seen it before somewhere but still cool
  • Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
    edited October 2011
    It's been loading for about 5 mins & only at 78%?
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  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited October 2011
    fogartylee wrote: »
    It's been loading for about 5 mins & only at 78%?
    Aye, bored now. Back to reading reports on the Spurs v Arsenal game...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • ewgfewgf
    edited October 2011
    fogartylee wrote: »
    It's been loading for about 5 mins & only at 78%?

    It came on for me almost instantly. I'm using Opera Version 11.51 Build 1087, and I've just tried it in Firefox, which just left the screen hanging, and Google Chrome which loaded it up fine.

    No idea why Firefox didn't load it (to tired to sort it out now...) but try Chrome or Opera and see if the site works for you.
  • joefishjoefish
    edited October 2011
    ewgf wrote: »
    BTW,the site lists the universe as being 930 YM. The 'YM' means yottametres, and 1 yottametre is equal to one hundred and ten light years (1 YM = 110 light years), thanks to my big brain (alright, Wikipedia) for that.
    Then a fail on both counts - it's one hundred and five point seven million light years. Only a million times out...
    Joefish
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  • ewgfewgf
    edited October 2011
    joefish wrote: »
    Then a fail on both counts - it's one hundred and five point seven million light years. Only a million times out...

    Yeah, erm I forgot to add the word 'million' to my post, it is in Wikipedia's description (which reads "1 Ym (1024 m or 110 million light years).", so my apologies there, and I'll edit my post now.

    Then again, if you're correct then Wikipedia have rounded 105.7 million to 110 million, which isn't perhaps desirable given that it's a scientific measurement that they are altering, which I don't think is acceptable behaviour for a site that people use for reference.

    On the other hand, Joefish, in one post you've managed to make me and Wikipedia look stupid :-(. Wheres if you'd spent the time finishing Buzzsaw then not only would I and Wikipedia look big and clever, but we'd all now be playing Buzzsaw, and you could have manually corrected Wikipedia when no one was looking, and everyone would have been too impressed with my Buzzsaw score to care if I was wrong about some nerdy measurement that no one has ever heard of anyway. I could have been the world champion at Buzzsaw now, with all the fame, birds and cash that would attract!

    I hope you're happy with yourself ;)
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