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Also interesting: If you were to take your nerves out and lay them end on end you would die.
Actually interesting fact
Your height is closer in scale to a light second than the size of an atom. And yet atoms seem more approachable than light seconds. Fascinating stuff!How do you define "closer" here? I'm about 1.8m removed from the size of an atom but well over 299 thousand kilometers from a light second.
orders of magnitude soz
physics causes brainrot and everything becomes OOM
You're comparing them linearly, a comparison for which the statement is false.
The statement is true multiplicatively/logarithmically/unitarily.
Atomic radius is ~ 1e-10m
Light second is ~3e8m
Your height can be measured as 1.8e10 atomic radii.
A light second can be measured using only 1.7e8 humans who are 1.8m tall.
Does that help?