The Scale of the Universe

http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/scale_of_the_universe_2012

by joelrunyon • 14 years ago

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koenbok• 14 years ago

Reminds me of IBMs Powers of Ten video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

aoe• 14 years ago

Great visualization.

Is there really no object in the 10^-24 - 10^-34 range?

oscilloscope• 14 years ago

Looks like the Sloan Great Wall is the biggest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloan_Great_Wall

"it is the largest known structure in the universe"

mootothemax• 14 years ago

Please can you link to the original (http://htwins.net/scale2/) and not the blogspam version? :-)

joelrunyon• 14 years ago

Oops - sorry, this is where I found it. I can't change the url after the story's been submitted - sorry.

heed• 14 years ago

Why did it stop at a planck length? I thought space was continuous.

Tuna-Fish• 14 years ago

That is actually an unknown. There are many theories that postulate discrete space, but there has been a dearth of reliable experimental tests for it.

zbyszek• 14 years ago

It's a hard hypothesis to prove either way. One finds that quantum effects dominate the physics at smaller length scales. In quantum theory, the smaller a thing is (its Compton wavelength) the higher its mass or energy. At the Planck scale the density becomes large enough for a black hole to form. So we can get quantum fluctuations creating virtual black holes, which means that the description of spacetime as a continuous thing is invalid.