Gadgetory

the most abundant element in the universe is hydrogen comprised in most cases of a single proton and orbiting electron more formally regarded as protium say that instead of hydrogen from now on and you'll sound extra sophisticated 99.99% of the time that's because deuterium and tritium make up the other point Oh 1% a single protium atom is extremely small if we're including the orbital diameter of the electron and atom is roughly 160 Co meters wide this is a hydrogen atom here so if an atom of hydrogen was the size of a golf ball the diameter of a single strand of human hair would stretch across the Strait of Dover with room to spare that's 25 miles by the way or 40.2 km/h Intel CPU transistor which I explain in more detail right here well even at this size the distance between individual fins is actually not large at all using skylight 14 nanometer architecture as a reference the distance between two fins is roughly 40 nanometers meaning that we could fit 132 protium atoms and some change across this distance still too small assuming a uniform distribution of transistor fins dot an entire sky like CPU die in a single fin per square try gate transistor we could fit just under 30 and a half trillion atoms into that dye this again assumes that the dye itself has been entirely out of hydrogen which is definitely not the case so let's keep going then visible light that narrow slice of electromagnetic radiation the humans can see has wavelengths between roughly 400 and 700 nanometers still 100 times smaller than the diameter of a single human hair let's move up to that next it would take 485 hair stacked side-by-side to span the thickness of the world's thinnest smartphone currently the vivo x5x at four point seven five millimeters 30% slimmer than the iPhone six let's talk about animals for a second the world's largest spider the Goliath bird-eating tarantula is recorded to have reached 30 and a half centimeters or one foot but that's nothing compared to the largest shark ever found a 12 point 2 meter long whale shark got you there I should also mention the largest animal in existence currently is the blue whale which can reach lengths of up to 30 meters or 98 feet the tallest man-made structure of the Burj Kalifa stretches 830 meters high I'll be visiting it very soon by the way stay tuned for that and is the equivalent of just under 28 of blue whales stack nose to tail the tallest not on earth Mount Everest stretches 8,848 metres high nearly 11 Burj Khalifa's and we're about to leave her so let's go ahead and take a step back for a second now since we started with a single protium Adam how many of those would it take to reach the summit of Mount Everest from sea-level this many 83 trillion Ford and 71 billion 698 million of them had an altitude of 100 kilometres 62 miles of a sea-level outerspace quote-unquote begins according to the Karman line treaties in the same way that it takes 11 Burj Khalifa's 3 to the summit of Mount Everest it takes 11 Everest to reach the edge of space distance to the moon on average three hundred eighty four thousand four hundred kilometers the average diameter of Earth's orbit around the Sun is 300 million kilometers at 781 times the distance to the moon and the average diameter of our solar system is nine point 1 billion kilometres the distance to the next nearest star ready for this one four point two two light-years since light travels 299 thousand seven hundred ninety-two kilometers per second we can calculate the linear distance to this star Proxima Centauri by the way roughly thirty nine trillion nine hundred billion kilometers or two hundred seventy-one thousand astronomical units 207 one thousand times further than the earth is from the Sun the diameter of the Milky Way comes out to just over one hundred thousand light-years and the diameter of the universe you ask 93 billion light years that's the observable part at least and how many atoms across this many this is science Studios minutes science thanks for learning with us you