Friday, November 17, 2017

Relative Size of Things

Here's a great little "game" that my 5 year old boy found on the net:


It lets the user zoom in and out to discover the relative size of objects, and it is a lot of fun.

Zooming out, we see the relative size of buildings, countries, planets, stars, galaxies, etc. all the way out to the entire visible universe.

Zooming in we go from insects to bacteria, viruses, molecules, atoms, and so forth, all the way down to the Plank constant.

Keeping in mind my own view on things while playing around with the "game", I found it interesting to note that the neutrino was included in both its energetic form and its neutral state. The energetic one was much bigger than the neutral one.

However, the photon and the electron were not included. Instead, there were wavelengths of various types of light. The inclusion of wavelengths seems strangely misplaced in what is otherwise a display of things, and I could not help thinking how wrong the wavelength idea is. Energy is always a matter of size. The neutrino is displayed correctly. The photons are still displayed in the old and incorrect way.

As for the very large structures, they too should be viewed with some skepticism. Their sizes are based on conventional ideas related to red-shift. They are highly red-shifted objects, so they are assumed to be extremely distant. Should it turn out that they are much closer than assumed, they would be correspondingly smaller in size.

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