(September 25, 2014 at 3:35 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(September 25, 2014 at 3:32 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Unrelated, but I really really hope someone comes up with a way to help us appreciate just how immense shit out in the universe can be. Seeing those little comparison charts is nice, but my mind just can't wrap around how fucking huge they really are.
Seen this?
Scale of the Universe
Yeah, that's one of my favorites. Though at a certain point it still just becomes ink on a page (or, 1's and 0's on a screen) to me, hard to transpose what I'm seeing intellectually into a physical model that I can consider more viscerally. Like holding an apple next to a mountain, I can see and feel and appreicate that. Comparing quarks to suns? Eh, harder.
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