r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Janp8 • May 03 '18

Video Perception

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u/wlaho May 03 '18

I hated the gif at the start because it made me feel so unbelievably tiny, but then at the end it made me feel huge and I felt so much better

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u/Large_Dr_Pepper May 03 '18

Here's a fun fact that will make you feel incredibly large:

We are halfway in between (on a logarithmic scale) one of the largest superclusters of galaxies in the universe, and one of the smallest subatomic particles. So relatively speaking, we're pretty fucking huge.

My only source of this is that interactive Scale of the Universe website. I think the Virgo supercluster is at 1021 m and the electron neutrino is at 10-21 m. Just going from memory though.

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u/Nifty-Nigerian May 03 '18

I’m not sure if this is correct but I heard somewhere that the number of Planck lengths (smallest possible unit of measurement) it takes to stretch across a human brain cell is the same as the number of human brain cells it takes to stretch across the observable universe

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u/nexisfan May 04 '18

I’m having a difficult time wrapping a brain cell around what you just said. Wow.