Prepare Your Mind To Be Blown

Kinja'd!!! "philipilihp" (philiphilip)
11/14/2013 at 14:18 • Filed to: Sciencelopnik

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This shows the relative size of a bunch of stuff, from the Universe all the way down to Quantun Foam (yeah, that's right). INSANE.

http://htwins.net/scale2/


DISCUSSION (12)


Kinja'd!!! YSI-what can brown do for you > philipilihp
11/14/2013 at 14:27

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I just reached one meter. . .


Kinja'd!!! ptak appreciates old racecars > philipilihp
11/14/2013 at 14:35

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They forgot the 1958 Buick at the far right end :(


Kinja'd!!! horspowr1001 > philipilihp
11/14/2013 at 14:36

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FUCKING SCIENCE


Kinja'd!!! EL_ULY > philipilihp
11/14/2013 at 14:38

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Wow! That is a good visual representation of what I tell my fiance. Still, she wont let my threesome fantasy with her cheerleader friend happen :(


Kinja'd!!! Victorious Secret > philipilihp
11/14/2013 at 14:39

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I love this thing.

At the same time, its depressing. Because its physics and I never went into physics and physics lets you do astrophysics which lets you be the most awesome kind of scientists known to mankind.

Fucking science.


Kinja'd!!! Joe_Limon > philipilihp
11/14/2013 at 15:16

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This is how I describe how big a googol and googolplex are, imagine there is a point, at every interval in quantum foam in the entire observable universe, now imagine that the universe isn't expanding, and that each of those points disappears after one planck second and replaced by another point. The sum total of all of these points, since the big bang, up until now is approximately equivalent to one googol. One googolplex is taking a 1, and then assigning zero to each and every single one of these points.


Kinja'd!!! philipilihp > Joe_Limon
11/14/2013 at 15:31

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My question is, though, is there nothing in size between 1 yoctometer and 0.0000000001 yoctometers?


Kinja'd!!! Joe_Limon > philipilihp
11/14/2013 at 15:33

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It's a good question! the difference in size is comparable to that of... the sun vs an egg.


Kinja'd!!! philipilihp > Joe_Limon
11/14/2013 at 15:35

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There has to be something in between, right? But I'm sure it's extremely hard to detect anything at that scale.


Kinja'd!!! Joe_Limon > philipilihp
11/14/2013 at 15:41

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Especially since electron microscopes are 15 orders of magnitude larger then a yoctometer.


Kinja'd!!! Frank Grimes > philipilihp
11/14/2013 at 17:22

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Is quantum foam like space ice cream?


Kinja'd!!! philipilihp > Frank Grimes
11/14/2013 at 18:59

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Lol it definitely should be!