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- KennMac, on 10/11/2007, -0/+95"If your monitor displays 72 pixels to the inch, then that works out to eleven miles - making this possibly the biggest page you've ever seen."
Hmm... I'm going to have to print this page to get a better look. - BLyn, on 10/11/2007, -2/+66That's pretty good...Particularly the distance to the electron relative to its size. Never quite realized the scale.
Dugg for blue balls. - evilregis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+37Could've put a few naked ladies along that 11 mile stretch. Other than that, fantastic.
- Fracture98, on 10/11/2007, -0/+32If you zoom in too far on Google maps, they should show you this page.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+28I keep getting the "Tree not properly loaded" error. =(
- Brss45, on 10/11/2007, -0/+23Hope you're at work.
- nthitz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20Why did you link to #electron? That completely ruins the experience!
- EarlOfLade, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1811 miles = 696 960 inches
11 inch paper results in 696 960 / 11 = 63360 pages
good luck! - fires, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18Also check out this scale image of the solar system:
http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/index.html - ienjoythebeach, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18its amazing to think that most everything is empty space, this illustration does a great job of showing us that
- Urusai, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Inaccurate, subatomic particles aren't spheres, they are standing probability waves with fuzzy boundaries, and electrons in an atom are waves standing in one of several "orbital" modes. At least, that's what I remember from the back of the cereal box.
- sonaboy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16look closer - do you see Waldo?
i found him. - 0ceanic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15that's not a proton. that's neptune!
- ckohler, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15Then consider this: You're not actually touching anything, ever. The atoms that make you up are literally floating one angstroms distance from the atoms of your chair/floor/air. You are always floating because atoms never actually touch, they repel away from each other like magnets.
- KennMac, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14Yeah, maybe our whole universe is just a marble that some alien is using in a game. Err.. wait.
- duccodude, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12talk about a waste of black ink
- kazamx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12They did teach it. You were too busy trying to look up that cute blondes skirt to notice though
- themastersb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11I should print this out
- AtheistAcolyte, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10*****! I wanted to know the MOMENTUM of that electron! Damn you, Heisenberg!
- Gryffydd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9You're printing at 72dpi?
- Sparkster185, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9MrBabyMan needs to get a job. Don't get me wrong, his submittals are good.
- Ganpachi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8so what you are saying is that I could have a whole universe in my fingernail?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8The 'feeling' sensation is merely as he described, the increasing repelling feeling as we attempt to squish atoms on our fingers to atoms on the surface of objects. Hell, at the lowest level, what is matter even? There's no end to how small it can get, and really there's so much empty space that it might all be forces, and there's possibly NO tangible matter, only energy in standing waves creating the behavior of matter. I mean, what do we expect the smallest particle to be? Some sort of sphere, but what is the surface of it made of? I tend to think matter is an illusion, the universe is entirely energy that could stand still and be nothing again as it once was.
- rlegions, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8The website is pretty cool. That's a nice break from all those retarded ron paul and bush impeachment articles.
- heaintheavy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8That's a big Twinkie.
- rkritzer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8AH! What the heck is my finger actually colliding with when I type?! Strong nuclear forces are boggling!
- jhshukla, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7don't leave printer resolution at 300 dpi.
- rollem, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Strong nuclear forces bind protons to each other in the nucleus. "Normal-sized" matter interactions are electrical charges repelling each other: the negatively charged electrons on the surface of the atoms on the keyboard are pushing against the negatively charged electrons on the surface of your fingers.
- Jugalator, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Or maybe in a necklace?
♫ Here come the men in black
Galaxy defenders oho oho oho ♫
♪ Here come the men in black
They wont let you remember - sfanetti, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7This also makes you think about the difference in strength between the electromagnetic and gravitational forces. The force of your mass being pulled on by the entire earth is paltry compared to the force that keeps your electrons from pushing through the concrete on the street below.
- trzynascie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6That's how the things look, when we try to perceive quantum-scale world with our macro-scale thinking.
It's still good picture though - chubbymidget, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7At about the half way point theres a "Where's Waldo" pic.
- jhshukla, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6when did we calculate radius of an electron?
and making proton a 1000 times in diameter makes it a trillion times in volume. i suppose the author wanted to show and compare the masses; that makes proton only 10 pixels in dia. doesn't make a big difference to 11 miles; only makes everything emptier. - 2point71, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5... i'm not going to sleep tonight...
- Jo9100, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6however, if you go on the roof of your house and jump off to your parkway, you'll notice that it is not as empty as you think...
- Speed, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Nah, it was just a galaxy inside the necklace.
- ElusiveByte, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5On my monitor I estimated that the width from the left edge of the page the right edge of the proton was 12" plus or minus an inch.
If I hold down the right arrow of the horizontal scroll bar, then the proton will be completely hidden off of the left edge of the screen after 7 seconds.
So that's 12 inches in 7 seconds, or 12/7 in/s
12 divided by 7 is about 1.714
Google Calculator tell me that "1.71400 (inches / second) = 0.0973863636 mph"
That's 10.3 hours per mile.
So, if the page is 11 miles wide, then it would take 113 hours to get to the electron. (4.7 days) - AtheistAcolyte, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6From the Book of Fettucini 6:34-37 - "Yay, so the Great and Munificent Flying Spaghetti Monster does wraps His Noodly Appendage about the electron and doth spin it about the nucleus. He performs this action merely for the joy he feels in manipulating but the smallest molecules. When measured, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, May I Forever Be Tasty In His Eyes, does change the electron's position or momentum, whichever he deigneth is naughty, merely to ***** with the scientists He created for amusement."
- djspanky, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Holy crap!
- hoginthefog, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5i wonder how big the universe would be if all of the particles touched with no space in between.
- bbarnhart, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Plenty of room for some Starbucks in the empty space.
- roflcawpter, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4You're not using...IE are you *gasp*
- rebopper, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7The kind of cool stuff they never taught in chemistry or physics classes in high school.
- h4ppydotcom, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I'm not a physicist, mage or cleric, but I think it's all held together by electricity. And Scotch Tape.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I don't get it. Is "Texas" a new measure of volume?
Must be metric. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Yeah perpetual motion isn't supposed to exist, and yet electrons have been whizzing around atomic nuclei for billions of years.
- mikeybikey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Or more importantly, the quarks in a proton "orbit" inside and a lone proton supposedly never, ever decays.
- opusaz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3And the proton is made of quarks, so there's even more empty space in there.
The high I get from science, especially physics like this, is waaay better than drugs. - ChayD, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3It's 11 miles to your left
- mikeybikey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Actually Quantum foam is a bunch of particles of coming in and out of the "vacuum". It is "random" and has energy. They come in pairs of matter and antimatter. Creating a large amount of unstable energy in a small space (like at the collision point of a particle collider) will also create particles "out of the vacuum". To say that it is empty is not true according to modern physics.
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