the Astronomical, Human, and Atomic dimensions

The universe can be divided into three parts: astronomical, human, and atomic. The standards of weights and measures are based on humanlike dimensions and human needs.

Astronomically, the meter is much too small and the second too short. The distance to the sun is 150,000,000 kilometers (93,000,000 miles), and stars are separated by tens of trillion miles. The Sun was born 5 billion years ago, and it is expected to live for another 5 billion years. At the atomic level -- the universe of atoms and molecules -- the meter is too large and the second too long.

In the hydrogen atom, the lone electron moves about the nucleus at an average distance of 53 picometers (53 trillionths of a meters), taking only 1.6 x 10-18second to complete one circulation. In other words, the electron completes 6.31 x 1018 circulations every second in an incomprehensibly small space.

If we could view human activity from the sun's perspective, the Earth would appear to be whirling around the Sun, taking only an instant to make one orbit in comparison to the Sun's life expectancy.

Thus, to the Sun, our behavior would look no different than what we see for atoms. From an atom's viewpoint, we would appear to move exceedingly slow over great distances, just like the astronomical universe as we see it.

- Dr. Eugene R. Zizka (my astronomy professor)

 

dude...

 

holy shit

 

Our concepts of the universe may be organized in that way but how can the universe be divisible?

 

well we already know time is irrelevant so we might as well be opened to a divisible universe

 

Cool me thinks this is similar to theory of relativity >http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/hotsciencetwin/

 

So the universe is a fractal?

 

I kind of picture the cosmos like a giant russian doll. A giant living fractal. The same kind of wild life goes on in our intestines as does on cave floors and in the jungles here on earth.. just on a smaller scale. Plant Cells look almost exactly like office complex's.

I like this thread

 

Depends on the observer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc"]YouTube - Dr Quantum - Double Slit Experiment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i8VDIZfGug"]YouTube - The Uncertainty Principle, Quantum Mechanics Explained