Scale of the universe

[5.points]

Re: Scale of the universe

Pretty cool, I did not know a Plank length was that small. (1,000,000,000,000,000,000 x smaller that a quark?)

I'm surprised it didn't say "The Game" once you reach the smallest object. lol

[DotKritic]

Re: Scale of the universe

I remember seeing that a while back. Pretty cool ****.

[TheSaxRunner05]

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Nice chart, I saw something like that at the St. Louis Science Center once

[G.S.M]

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very cool

[adlp]

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i love this kind of stuff

foil has some awesome things like these to show as well

[awein999]

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I've seen videos of the scale of the universe similar to this. I found this very cool.

[Reach]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNAUR7NQCLA

A cool scene from the start of Contact (movie) related to the original post here.

Another cool video of magnification; http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4m...o-a-tooth_tech

starts relatively boring but it's interesting to see things completely invisible to us at those magnifications.

[Reincarnate]

Re: Scale of the universe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNAUR7NQCLA

A cool scene from the start of Contact (movie) related to the original post here.

Another cool video of magnification; http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4m...o-a-tooth_tech

starts relatively boring but it's interesting to see things completely invisible to us at those magnifications.

I always loved that scene from Contact even though the radio-signal stuff is inaccurate (the really early radio signals are lightyears away, but based on the "speed of zoom-out" in that scene, the sound of those early signals would zip by pretty quickly so it's negligible as far as the movie's concerned)


Astronomy is one of the coolest subjects ever.


I have no idea how someone could ever look at pictures like these and not be utterly amazed. To think that everything comes from these swirling masses of gas and elements is mind-blowing, especially when you consider just how large the universe is. It's overwhelming @_@ It's even crazier when you consider just how blind we are as humans, unable to see most of the electromagnetic spectrum. The thought that this stuff is hiding past our blue sky makes me anxious.

[Reincarnate]

Re: Scale of the universe

If an atom were blown up to the size of a stadium, a pinhead would be the nucleus. I'm sure we've all heard that analogy.

But, now blow up that atom to the size of the known universe -- a Planck length would be a typical tree on our planet.

Size of known universe: 10^26 meters magnitude
Size of tree: 10^1 meters magnitude
Size of Planck length: 10^-35 meters magnitude
Size of atomic diameter: 10^-10 meters magnitude

Compare magnitudes:
26-1 = 25
-10-(-35) = 25

[foilman8805]

Re: Scale of the universe

http://www.wimp.com/knownuniverse/

[Reincarnate]

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Ahhhh seeing that Big-Bang WMAP picture in that video gave me chills

[Cenright]

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That was truly enjoyable. I am happy someone made it into a scale. I have seen less comprehensive ones, that focus on specific things, but this is head and shoulders above that.

[Reincarnate]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z3cVQcfb-w

[5.points]

Re: Scale of the universe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z3cVQcfb-w

I saw something like that when I went up to Northern Michigan a couple years ago. It's amazing how much more you can see once you get away from city lights.

It's practically impossible to think of how there are BILLIONS of galaxy's that are so big it's difficult to see across them, that contain the hundreds of billions of stars, that some contain solar systems like ours, and that's just the observable universe.

[foilman8805]

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It's practically impossible to think of how there are BILLIONS of galaxy's that are so big it's difficult to see across them, that contain the hundreds of billions of stars, that some contain solar systems like ours, and that's just the observable universe.

Let this video think for you then:

http://www.wimp.com/knownuniverse/