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How big/small are we? (scale diagram of the universe)

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Check out this awesome website. http://htwins.net/scale2/

Scroll using the scroll bar at the bottom.

 
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awesome

 
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Stuff like this makes me realise just how insignificant us and our problems really are

 
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or how awesomely huge we are compared to some things, im going out side to stomp some neutrons!!!!!!!!! Show them whos the big dog around here

 
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What I find amazing is how much space there is between particles in an atom, which extends to how much space there is in all matter including us.
There is more of nothing than there is of anything.

Even though this scale site shows most things in scale, it doesn’t show protons and neutrons to scale when shown as an atom.

Zoom in to the hydrogen atom then zoom in to the size of a proton/neutron.
Then zoom back out to the hydrogen but keep imagining the size of the neutrons/protons.
More than 99.999% of a hydrogen atom is empty.

If a femtometer (size of proton/neutron) was a golf ball the electron cloud would span 1km.
There is 1km of nothing for every golf ball of nuclear mass (sort of - but only a physicist needs to understand that with more detail).

 
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Pretty sure that K2 posted this one before?????

Pretty cool!!!!!

 
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Geebus. Do ya reckon there’s another Boardworld out there on Planet Neutron? I wonder what their pow is like. shred