Scale of the Universe

Post by vorg » Wed, Feb 26, 2014, 11:28 PM UTC

walden42 wrote: post #69

vorg wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> to comprehend the scale of the universe is deeply unsettling, especially when thinking about our minute, insignificant part of it Humans are 10^27 times smaller than the observable universe, and 10^24 times bigger than the neutrino, presently the smallest observable thing, and 10^35 times bigger than the smallest theoretical distance, the Planck length. That puts humans around the center of the Universe's scale, ha…

Yeah, we're at the center of everything we can observe. That seems to make sense. It might seem the same way from the point of view of a neutrino =)

Post by knowaveragejoe » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 3:22 PM UTC

hadem wrote: post #22

knowaveragejoe wrote: post #15

Not a plug for Nikon, but their version of this concept is far superior IMO: http://www.nikon.com/about/feelnikon/universcale/

I disagree. The user interface is poorly designed. It immediately slides everything past in a blur. I wanted to look from smallest to largest, but when I click the icon to go to the smallest scale, I'm asked to "restart". If I use the scroll wheel and get to the smallest scale, I'm also asked to restart. When I restart, I'm shown the blur of objects again and have to go through the entire process over again.