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The Rest Is Science — The Scale of the Universe
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The Scale of the Universe

The Rest Is Science · 83

The scale of the universe stretches from the Planck length, the smallest scale physics can describe, to the observable universe, the largest thing we can see. Travel inward from one and outward from the other by powers of ten and they meet at something astonishingly familiar: the size of a human egg cell. Michael…

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10x smaller than a planck length is the X in mobile game ads

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21:29 Also, the other Guy Standing is already dead. So the economist is the Last Guy Standing.

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People get existential understanding how small they are in the grand scheme of things. I get existential understanding how gigantic I am.

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