From a coffee bean to a carbon atom... an incredible sense of scale [The More You Know]

The University of Utah's Genetic Science Learning Center has put together a great little Flash presentation showing the scale of things as big as a coffee bean all the way down to the size of a carbon atom. The world... IT'S SO TINY! Click here to view things you can't see with your human eyeballs.


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I work in semiconductors, so

Submitted by Darsh on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 21:57.

I work in semiconductors, so really small particles are pissing me off all the time.

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Man, and I thought my cubicle

Submitted by delsydsoftware on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 22:49.

Man, and I thought my cubicle was small. You work inside  a semiconductor! Mind you, I'd take the quantum fluctuations over having to answer stupid questions all the time.  :-D

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damn

Submitted by zero on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 22:27.

that was a trip

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