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Old 08-05-2015, 09:59 AM
julianh72 (Julian)
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There's a great movie called "Powers of Ten" from 1977: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

It "only" goes out to 10^24 metres (100 million light years), but a bit of quick maths tells you that the scale of the observable universe is "only" about two orders of magnitude bigger (10^26 metres or ~10 billion light years).

10^0 metres (= 1 metre) is the order of magnitude of a human being.

The movie then zooms in to 10^-10 metres (the scale of an atom), 10^-14 metres (the size of a proton), and finishes at 10^-16 metres, where you're getting down towards the scale of the most fundamental theoretical particles.

9 minutes that everyone should watch!
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