{"id":3590,"date":"2012-02-10T21:02:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T10:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2012-02-10T21:02:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T10:02:42","slug":"visualise-the-scale-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/visualise-the-scale-of-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualise the Scale of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to John Tomic for sharing this with me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to get a visual idea of the scale of stuff in the universe then there&#8217;s a great Flash-based tool that shows you a variety of objects and scales all the way from the length of a <a title=\"Planck constant | Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Planck%27s_constant\" target=\"_blank\">planck<\/a>\u00a0through to the estimated size of the universe. You can use the slider to zoom in and out and you can even click on the various objects in view to view a small descriptive blurb.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3591\" style=\"width: 717px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Scale-of-the-Universe-2012.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3591\" class=\" wp-image-3591 \" title=\"Scale of the Universe 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Scale-of-the-Universe-2012-1024x651.png?resize=717%2C456\" alt=\"Scale of the Universe 2012\" width=\"717\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Scale-of-the-Universe-2012.png?resize=1024%2C651&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Scale-of-the-Universe-2012.png?resize=300%2C190&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Scale-of-the-Universe-2012.png?w=1109&amp;ssl=1 1109w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scale of the Universe 2012<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Suddenly, I feel very, very small in the grand scheme of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to John Tomic for sharing this with me \ud83d\ude42 If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to get a visual idea of the scale of stuff in the universe then there&#8217;s a great Flash-based tool that shows you a variety of objects and scales all the way from the length of a planck\u00a0through to the estimated size &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/visualise-the-scale-of-the-universe\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}