Name: Scale of the Universe - Geek Week
Uploaded: 2013-08-09T12:51:14.000Z
Duration: 4 min 46 s
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move in focus on this Human whose cells magnify

Atoms, looming but you keep shooting past

protons, bosons, quarks til even a part of a particles too big Then

BOOM an end to the intrusion As you hit the resolution of the

universe the strands of its fabric the tiniest fragment the planck length,

past that, Gravity becomes fallacy, try contrasting that with the

galaxies try to grasp the huge magnitude of the universe it's unimaginable.

If that insane length was one dollar bill

Then to reach the wavelength of the smallest particles

they don't have an inherent size would be the current price you'd gain if you

if you applied the Midas touch to my mind it'd be quite enough to buy a car to drive

And the gluons and 3 quarks combined make a large hadron those guys collide;

a proton and to magnify to that size would turn that Midas mountain

into a diamond my mind made of that could buy you an island

and next we ramp up, from quarks and protons to atoms,

atoms the fractions of matter the ones that that grant us our mass, and

if that quark was counted every time you take a

single breath you'd respire Midas mountains then

and if that life was compressed into one lock of hair then as we

climb / up the rest of these atomic stairs then we'd pass

DNA when we get to my red streak and the size of our cells

Sometimes you make me feel so small Can't comprehend your size

If we took my head of hair that a cell represents

lifetimes of Midas Everest breaths and then you would stretch it out to the skyline,

you'd find circle round the earth 10 times before you meet me... and you.

Right here the reach of a human, a meter or two and if we were to choose

one song to represent those horizons, an MP3 on our

device then to reach the size of the earth compared to like our size

that's a terabyte hard drive filled with our files

it seems immense And if we compress that collection to one

to represent our world, then scaling coefficients from the planet to the solar system

would let me re-read the whole of deathly hallows

And then to travel between stars as we take to the skies

Would be 10 times every word you'll ever say in your life

And as an analogy of the expanse of galaxies up in space

10 times the total of every word in every book ever made

And to move up to the scale of galaxy clusters would be every word said by everyone in Shanghai,

in London Berlin, Delhi, LA, Mumbai, Sao Paulo and Moscow

Jakarta, Karachi, Dubai, Telford, Tokyo and Stockholm

And then to galaxy superclusters in the large-scale structure

with filaments that feel inadequately described as humungous

since if we stay with the scale of Earth as a word that equates

to all the words everyone alive today will ever say

finally we reach the biggest physical thing we can confirm

The indescribable size of the observable universe which would be more than every word that every

person ever has said Every word that was ever written and every

Yet I'm a giant in your eyes. I can't control the scope

To summarise Every word that every person has ever said

in their lives where each word implies enough MP3s to fill

a terabyte hard drive Where each song is 10 times the number drives

to the horizon that it'd take to ride around the world each

where each horizon is a head of hairs and every hair there is the length of a lifetime

and each breath in that life is the price of mount everest made entirely by midas

and that finally describes it, and it's increasing in size

So each time you listen to this song again it'll be even more difficult to comprehend.