{"id":3352,"date":"2012-03-23T08:13:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T12:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2012-03-23T08:18:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T12:18:10","slug":"cool-demonstration-of-the-full-scale-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=3352","title":{"rendered":"Cool demonstration of the full scale of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.flabber.net\/files\/scale-of-the-universe-2.swf\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3353\" style=\"margin: 1px 3px;\" title=\"The Scale of the Universe 2 opening screen\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/3-23-2012-8-00-07-AM.jpg?resize=300%2C180\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/3-23-2012-8-00-07-AM.jpg?resize=300%2C180 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/3-23-2012-8-00-07-AM.jpg?resize=1024%2C616 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/3-23-2012-8-00-07-AM.jpg?w=1052 1052w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The full scale of the Universe traverses the sizes as small as one Planck Length (hypothetically the size of quantum strings, branes and foam), all the way up to the distance to the farthest galaxies (and a bit beyond).\u00a0 A project called &#8220;<a title=\"The Scale of the Universe 2\" href=\"http:\/\/static.flabber.net\/files\/scale-of-the-universe-2.swf\">The Scale of the Universe 2<\/a>&#8221; by Cary Huang helps put all of ths into perspective.\u00a0 Differences in sizes between different elements of the world around us is a bit surprizing.\u00a0 In particular, check out the size comparison between an ant and the largest bacteria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/static.flabber.net\/files\/scale-of-the-universe-2.swf\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3356\" style=\"margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;\" title=\"The Scale of the Universe 2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/3-23-2012-8-10-12-AM.jpg?resize=300%2C258\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/3-23-2012-8-10-12-AM.jpg?resize=300%2C258 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/3-23-2012-8-10-12-AM.jpg?w=600 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The web tool doesn&#8217;t just show examples at each scale.\u00a0 It also provides a brief summary or explanation of every object when you click on it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full scale of the Universe traverses the sizes as small as one Planck Length (hypothetically the size of quantum strings, branes and foam), all the way up to the distance to the farthest galaxies (and a bit beyond).\u00a0 A project called &#8220;The Scale of the Universe 2&#8221; by Cary Huang helps put all of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=3352\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cool demonstration of the full scale of the Universe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-3352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-review"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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