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Old 02-03-2020, 11:48 AM
julianh72 (Julian)
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There's a nice short film called "Powers of 10" (made back in 1977) that zooms out from the human scale (~ 1 metre) by 24 orders of magnitude to 10^24 metres (100 million light years); then zooms back in to human scale and down by 16 of orders of magnitude to 10^-16 metres ("quark soup" scale).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

There might be a more modern version around somewhere, which probably zooms outwards by another 2 or 3 orders of magnitude to the "edge" of the observable universe, but I'm not sure if our current theories let us get much deeper than "quark soup". (Although the Planck Length is about 10^-35 metres, so there could be another 15 to 20 orders of magnitude before you actually get to the bottom! )
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