- 10^-35: Quantum gravity domain. Planck's length.
- 10^-30:
- 10^-28:
- 10^-24: Neutrino
- 10^-21: Perons, the ingredients of quarks.
- 10^-18: Quarks. Electron cores.
- 10^-15: Protons.
- 10^-14: size of light nuclei.
- 10^-12: Gamma ray wavelength.
- 2*10^-12: electron Compton wavelength.
- 5*10^-12: X-ray wavelength.
- 2.5*10^-11: distance between two Hydrogen atom nuclei.
- 3.1*10^-11: distance between two Helium atom nuclei.
- 7.0*10^-11: distance between two Carbon atoms nuclei.
- 10^-10: distance between two Sulfure atom nuclei.
- 5*10^-10: width of Protein alpha Helix.
- 10^-9 (1 nano meter): Carbon nanotube.
- 2*10^-9: the smallest transistor gate of microprocessor.
- 3*10^-9: thickness of DNA.
- 10*10^-9: the width of cell membrane.
- 50*10-9: ultraviolate wavelength.
- 90*10^-9: HIV.
- 300*10^-9: Violate wavelength.
- 500*10^-9: largest virus.
- 600*10^-9: red light wavelength.
- 7*10^-6 (7 micrometer): red blood cell.
- 10*10^-6: infrared wavelength. Fog droplet. White blood cell.
- 50*10^-6: Pullen grain. Silt particle.
- 10^-4 (a tenth of milimeter): smallest things visible to naked eyes. Width of human hair.
- 2.5*10^-4: human egg.
- 3*10^-4: computer pixel.
- 5*10^-4: salt crystal grain. Thickness of human skin. Largest bacteria. Pencil lead.
- 7*10^-4: thickness of credit card.
- 10^-3: Ant. Sesame. etc.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Meet other creatures
Meet them in these scales of a meter:
Thursday, March 03, 2011
The Fritz London Prize 2011
is happy to hear the Fritz London Prize - highest award in low temperature physics after the nobel - is awarded to Hans Mooij in recognition for his experimental contributions to the understanding of nonequilibrium superconductivity, Josephson flux qubits, etc; at the same time to Gerd Schön in recognition of his theoretical contributions to the understanding of superconductivity in mesoscopic systems, including charge qubit; as well as to Humphrey Maris in recognition for his original theories and experimental discoveries in liquid helium, concerning phonons, Kapitza resistance, levitation, nucleation, electron bubbles and vortex imaging.