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Orders of magnitude

Physicists are interested in everything from the largest objects to the smallest imaginable (PHYSICS REVIEW Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 10 –12), and you can explore all of these using the internet

In ‘The Scale of the Universe 2’, by Cary Huang, you can zoom in and look at progressively smaller objects, starting from the size of a human, through everyday objects such as an egg, down to, for example, red blood cells, chromosomes, viruses and eventually the neutrino at 10−24m. (From there until the limit of 10 −35m there is not much to see.) At the other end of the scale, after planets, stars and galaxies, the limit of the observable universe is at 10 27m:

www.htwins.net/scale2/

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