OrangeRKN wrote:Oblomov Boblomov wrote:OrangeRKN wrote:You're closer in size to the sun than you are to an atom
How exactly does this work? Do you have to view size through a particular perspective?
For example, if you measured it purely based on height, clearly as soon as you realise the sun is taller than about 12 feet, you're closer to the atom. Same concept with width/depth.
Are we talking mass? If so, I'm still struggling to get my head around it.
The diameter of a carbon atom is ~3.4*10^-10 meters.
The height of a human is ~1.8 meters.
The diameter of the sun is ~7.0*10^8 meters.
If you took two people and doubled one in height every time you halved the other, the person being scaled up would become as tall as the sun before the person being scaled down would be as short as an atom.
Not sure what you mean by the 12 foot thing!
Ah, I see, you have to view it in proportion.
By the 12 foot thing I simply mean if I had a magic ruler, the atom would show as 3.4*10^-10 metres tall (definitely knew that before you wrote it
). Move along roughly six feet on the ruler and there we are at human size, then by the time you've gone another six feet, you're still a whole (7*10^8)-6 feet (lol at mixing imperial/metric systems in the same formula) away from the height of the sun.