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Thats totally ungraspable for human brains, mind blowing! Thats 10^23 kilometers, the same order of magnitude as the avogardo constant, means e.g. 14 gramms of carbon correspond to about 6.22 * 10^23 atoms of carbon, its the same magnitude to some of the larger smallest things...


You can a bit actually by scaling down everything. Imagine earth is the size of a grain of sand. Nearest star would beat approximately 4000km away. Light would travel at 0.3m/sec. Moon is only 4mm away. The sun only 16 meters.


I think you're missing a zero and must mean 0.03 m/s for light. Otherwise, your other distances have the wrong order of magnitude in terms of light-seconds.


Even 0.003 m/s, since the moon is about one light secon away.


and how long is this strand in question?


In this model, the sun is 16 metres away and is 8 light minutes in real money.

The strands from the article are 150 light years which is seventy eight million, eight hundred and ninety four thousand light minutes (78894000lm) or nine million, eight hundred and sixty one thousand, seven hundred and fifty times the distance of the sun (9861750x) which gives us 16mx9861750 or one hundred and fifty seven thousand, seven hundred and eighty eight km (157788km). About 40% of the way to the (real) moon.

If you mean the Hercules Great Wall, 10 billion light years is five quadrillion, two hundred and fifty nine trillion, six hundred billion light minutes (5259600000000000lm) which gives us six hundred and fifty seven trillion, four hundred and fifty billion (657450000000000x) times the distance to the sun which would be ten trillion, five hundred and nineteen billion, two hundred and million km (10519200000000km). Or "quite big".


Love it, thanks. Turns out it isn't actually very realistic to approximate the Hercules Great Wall. Astonishing




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