Re: how old are we size wise?strechedOctober 17 2006, 23:34:30 UTC
okay hah! that's awesome. i don't have a calculator to do the ratios out but i think this could be kinda accurate:: So, assuming an atom is 1Angstrom wide we can put an atom at 1X10^-10 of a meter. For simplicity's sake we'll assume we're about a meter long (for the size of numbers we're talking about thats kinda close) so we are, in essence, this much bigger than an atom: 10,000,000,000 times So since it's one second versus (right? still in seconds?) we're talking about that many seconds, which is in the billion range.
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solve for x, I'm so curious.
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So, assuming an atom is 1Angstrom wide we can put an atom at 1X10^-10 of a meter. For simplicity's sake we'll assume we're about a meter long (for the size of numbers we're talking about thats kinda close) so we are, in essence, this much bigger than an atom:
10,000,000,000 times
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since it's one second versus (right? still in seconds?) we're talking about that many seconds, which is in the billion range.
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you're pretty awesome. what're you up to these days?
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how's teaching?
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