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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 &amp; Michael&apos;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&amp;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&apos;s reaction is how I expect my friend to react when I am telling them about Vsacue&apos;s videos

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  • @ThomasLWoolsey · 3 weeks ago

    I just love how one week we&apos;ll get &quot;The scale of the universe and reality itself!&quot; and the next we&apos;ll get &quot;Here&apos;s why mechanical pencils are better than pens&quot;

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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&apos;ve got wrong, OR has changed since &nbsp;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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