"Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end." - Jerry Seinfeld
Scott Valentine
Los Alamos, NM
USA
Michael A. Vickers
Portland, CT
USA
Friday, January 18, 2008
The 11 Mile Wide Web Page

A gentleman wanted to illustrate the scale difference in size between an electron and proton inside a hydrogen atom, as well as the scale distance between the two. Scaling the electron to one pixel in size, the result is a proton 1000 pixels wide and a web page 11 miles wide (on 72 dpi monitors). And that is only covering the diameter of the electron's path.

Fascinating.

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3 shot(s) from the peanut gallery.
  Blogger fasteddie blathered at 1/18/2008 10:10 AM
That's pretty damn cool.
-Ed
  Blogger lokki went on and on at 1/18/2008 10:02 PM
You of course looked at the source code for the page?

:)
  Blogger Michael bloviated at 1/18/2008 11:52 PM
Of course I did. It's about 11 miles high.
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