Quarks to the Cosmos, where are we?

Factual Questions
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I was having a hard time sleeping last night, and of course my thoughts turned towards my place in the whole scheme of things. I started to think that I am supposed to be at the top of the food chain, but what about on the whole ball of wax? A quark is as the lowest we can go as far as parts go, I have a feeling that our universe has to sit somewhere, and since it does sit somewhere, where are we between a quark and the really, really big place? You can reword this if you want. My head hurts right now.

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Wikipedia is your friend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(length)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(area)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(mass)

3

Thanks, that is what I wanted, I just had no idea of how to word it to look for it. Now, I have to overcome a sudden dread of incredeble amounts of zeros and exponents. Maybe I’ll get to sleep tomorrow night. Maybe not. Now, where is the ibuprophen?
Tony

4

You may be interested in the classic educational video Powers of Ten

5

And Homer Simpson said, “Whoooo”.

6

Here’s another nifty little demonstration:

Universcale.

7

Thsi is really a gentle reminder of what insignificent things we really are. Wow.

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We are all a sitting on an Elephant’s nose.:;

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Someone told me it was a turtle’s back.

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The IMAX version of this is called Cosmic Voyage, and it’s available on DVD.