In 'forty jumps,' scientists model scales of quarks to quasars

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From the top left and moving across this powers-of-ten journey shows Earth (red line represents the ISS) (10sup7sup m) Earth and satellites (10sup8sup m) solar system (10sup13sup m) Pleiades (10sup18sup m) extrasolar planets (10sup18sup m) and the Mi ...
From the top left and moving across, this powers-of-ten journey shows Earth (red line represents the ISS) (107 m), Earth and satellites (108 m), solar system (1013 m), Pleiades (1018 m), extrasolar planets (1018 m), and the Milky Way and Large Magellanic Cloud (1023 m). Image Credit: Andrew Hanson, et al. © 2006 IEEE.
Comprehending the smallness of a quark or the hugeness of the observable universe is a challenge that most of us find difficult, yet captivating. Placing vastly different scales side by side to explore their relationship amounts to a task not even computers have mastered efficiently. Recently, scientists Chi-Wing (Philip) Fu and Andrew Hanson have developed a visualization system of the universe that may help scientists, educators and film viewers better understand size on a journey through the universe.


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