Do you need a Femtometer?

JamesG161

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Feb 14, 2014
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Hunter 430 Waveland, MS
In trying to zoom in on @jssailem and @LeslieTroyer on there AIS position, I was trying to scale the picture. Using a world satellite map I zoomed in and tried to see the distances.

Look at the measurement of the smallest object close to then end.
Jim...

PS: Quark Quark Quark you want to buy a duck?
 
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Feb 17, 2006
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So is 1 femtometer the smallest unit of measurement? Or can there be <0.001 femtometers? Just like 0 Kelvin (-273 C) is the lowest temperature in which there is no movement of atoms. Then I guess that anything lower than 0 Kelvin is irrelevant.
 
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I got the impression that if they kept zooming out, that Universe was going to start looking even more like a brain than the cloudy mass at the end. When they zoomed in, it began to look a lot like space. I expected it to start getting as crowded as space turned our top be if they kept zooming in.
Of course, these are artist's concepts, but isn't it interesting how many levels an analogy can follow through?

-Will (Dragonfly)
 
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jssailem

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Oct 22, 2014
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Cool video find Jim.