Showing posts with label universe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label universe. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Addendum to "Getting Perspective"


At the end of the video on my previous post, there is a comparison made that if the earth were the size of a grain of sand, then the Milky Way galaxy would be the size of New Jersey. Naturally, I wanted to see how many atoms each human being would represent if living upon the grain of sand. This mental exercise was stopped dead cold...

There are about 70 million, million, million atoms in a grain of sand!! Or "only" about 23 million, million, million molecules. Immediately after that revelation, I saw flashes of light and noted an odd, burning odor. Yep, I hurt my brain.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Getting Perspective

I don't care how much you think you've wrapped your head around this... You're mistaken.