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I do not understand. Do you know how large 50000 bacteria side to side are? I don't. I can compute the number but these are neither scales nor magnitudes I am
by BrandoElFollito 5y ago
I do not understand.
Do you know how large 50000 bacteria side to side are? I don't. I can compute the number but these are neither scales nor magnitudes I am used to.
300,000 km seems to be large but I do not know how much. About 10 times the perimeter of our planet. But this does not say much either.
But when you say "five people in a room, and then two joined" you have no problems processing the numbers.
- addaon 5y agoSee, e.g., holoduke's comment in this thread. The main tool that I (I'd say "we", but I know that different folks visualize differently) have for understanding the scale of the universe is analogy. It's absolutely non-trivial to understand (grasp / grok / missing English verb) this sort of thing -- but it's absolutely possible to continue to get better at it, and to comprehend more and more as you learn and experience more and more.
- hoten 5y agoAn individual person can't point at something they don't comprehend and rightly claim it is meaningless. I'd argue the same is true in the extreme: if something can't be comprehended by _anyone_, that doesn't make it meaningless.
- klyrs 5y agoHow do people make microchips, without understanding precisely and intimately how physics works at the scale of nanometers? Just because you don't isn't proof that nobody can.