Someone sent us a link to a slider application showing the scale of the universe. Click the picture below to visit the site and have a look. Quite fascinating.
Visit New Grounds to try it out (Thanks Blackdogmma)
Amazing: The Scale of the Universe
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Thanks for posting this Abeo , it was fascinating
Loved this, spent ages going through it all
i love sliding out from the very small to the very large taking about 30 seconds to go through it. watching it all go past give you an amazing sense of perspective, it makes you feel very small but in a good way because it fills you with awe!
Sadly large parts of it are just wrong. The observable universe size is wrong (cosmological distances are complicated by the fact the universe has expanded in the time it has existed), the estimated total universe size is wrong (we don’t have good constraints much beyond the observable size – the number given here is something like a badly translated and incorrectly scaled up actual size of the observable universe).
The electron and quark sizes don’t make sense (as best we know, aside from superstring theories, they’re pointlike. Certainly those sizes are too large).
Preons are entirely hypothetical and not at all well supported.
The two neutrino scales are as bad as the electron and quark scales.
sad creationists. thinking that something on such an AWESOME scale could be made only for us humans.
10 Awesome minutes going thru that.
my mood is very much elevated.