The Scale Of The Universe
832K views · Sep 2, 2026 · Science & Technology
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@TheRestIsScience · 3 weeks ago · pinned
You can find the Reddit thread for scale of the universe here: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRestIsScience/comments/1uycf3l/i_visualized_michael_scale_comparison_from_the">https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRestIsScience/comments/1uycf3l/i_visualized_michael_scale_comparison_from_the</a><br><br>And The Power Of 10 documentary here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0</a> <br><br>See some of Hannah & Michael's favourite Wikipedia pages here: <br><br>- Osama Bin Laden The Elephant - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden_(elephant)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden_(elephant)</a> <br>- Death From Laughter - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_from_laughter">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_from_laughter</a> <br>- Order Of Magnitude - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude</a> <br>- Amedeo Avogadro - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amedeo_Avogadro">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amedeo_Avogadro</a> <br>- Guy Standing (Economist) - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Standing_(economist)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Standing_(economist)</a><br> -Guy Standing (Actor) - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Standing_(actor)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Standing_(actor)</a>
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@SporkNotFork · 3 weeks ago
10x smaller than a planck length is the X in mobile game ads
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@GabrielBlight · 4 weeks ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yGdvsASj5c&t=1289">21:29</a> Also, the other Guy Standing is already dead. So the economist is the Last Guy Standing.
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@caio21f · 3 weeks ago
Hanna's reaction is how I expect my friend to react when I am telling them about Vsacue's videos
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@ThomasLWoolsey · 3 weeks ago
I just love how one week we'll get "The scale of the universe and reality itself!" and the next we'll get "Here's why mechanical pencils are better than pens"
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@mxatlatl6997 · 3 weeks ago
For reference a human egg cell is about the width of a single human hair.
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@TheogRahoomie · 3 weeks ago
So I’m much closer in size to the entire universe than then a plank length. That’s wild.
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@sketcher2459 · 4 weeks ago
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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@Kidderrgaming · 3 weeks ago
An episode on everything you've got wrong, OR has changed since being covered would be cool.
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@danlythecomedian · 3 weeks ago
You can fit more Planck lengths across a grain of sand than grains of sand across the observable universe
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@ceffotube · 3 weeks ago
To resolve the wiki loop issue, what I do is if I land on a node already visited, I choose the next child node.
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@JonahLawrence-u1t · 4 weeks ago
The caption for the Guy Standing economist page caused absolutely ENORMOUS drama among Wikipedia editors. There is an amazing video on the channel Tor’s Cabinet of Curiosities that does a deep dive into this. He’s also the reason for the Guy Standing actor page and caption
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