It’s a longer way down
According to Wolfram’s model of physics the fundamental unit of space is 10-100.The size of the universe is
I come across one of those mind blowing videos of the size of the universe and comparing the scale to Earth. Here are a few good ones
All I can say are words like “wow” “crazy” and “wild” when watching those videos.
I think about what is around me and the scale of those things compared to me and my small like. I think the county I live in is huge and it is. When you walk around a lot and travel on foot for miles the scale of how big everything is comes clearer. We as people are so small compared to the space around us.
How small is the world compared to the sun or the Andromeda galaxy? How small am I compared to the world though? There are billions of people on Earth and there is room for way more. There are streets in my neighborhood I’ve never been on and people on who live on my street that I don’t recognize.
Comprehending a city like Shanghai, Urban population 37 million, or all the cities in China with populations over a million, more than 100, is basically impossible.
So we as people are very small indeed.
And yet…. If you compare the size of humans to the plank scale, 10 to the negative 35, that means. According to Wolfram’s model of physics the basic unit of measurement is something called and atom of space. It’s what the universe is made of up. Each atom of space is 10 to the -100 meters. That’s really small.
Now consider that the size of the observable universe is 10 to the power of 26 meters to the floor of physics, we as humans are quite big.
Let’s say that the floor is the plank scale at 10-25. We humans are on average about 10 to the 0.237 and you can easily measure how big or small humans are.
We are only 10 to the power of 24.763 from the size of the observable universe and we are 10 to the negative 35.237 away from the floor on the plank scale and 10 to the negative 100.237 from an atom of space.
Humans are pretty big. So how big are humans then? How can we picture this difference if we can’t comprehend the much smaller distance from us to the size of, say, the milky way?