Best educational flash animation I've seen...

http://htwins.net/scale2/

I knew it was a big place but damn that puts it in perspective.

Here's something interesting: I read in a book (approx 15 years ago) that if we could travel at the speed of light, we could go around the entire Earth 7.5 times in 1 second. Pretty quick but even at this speed it would take around 14 billion years to reach the edge of the known universe. Fascinating fact that I have never forgotten.

Only the narrow minded could think we are alone in the universe IMO. I must say, I do find those documentaries by Brian Cox very interesting. He makes it easier to understand. LL.B (Hons) - University of Derby
LOT (Lord of Time) - University of Gallifrey

Yes, but in the same time the micro universe is equally interesting...

oooohhhhh my head hurts!
I was aware of quarks and strong forces etc due to work but i had no idea how much further things went!

alex_pescaru wrote:

Yes, but in the same time the micro universe is equally interesting...

Much more interesting

Some work gone into that, what can I deduce.....

The length of a piece of string = 1 Planck length, so now we know