Scale of things = Mind Blown

[stebo0728]

Holy microscopic flagellum Batman! Check out this site, its a simply zooming, informative site showing you the daunting scale of things.

http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white

[szh]

Cool!

It is however funny what perception does with scale when looked at using exponents ... the power of 10 changes are almost misleading in its simplicity. Tough to grasp and absorb.

Z

[stebo0728]

Yep, thats whats so deadly about the Richter scale. Each point up is a logarithmic jump, making a 7 hundreds of times more powerful than a 6. Thats also why 3's and 2's are so negligible, imperceptible.

[C-Kwik]

Yep, thats whats so deadly about the Richter scale. Each point up is a logarithmic jump, making a 7 hundreds of times more powerful than a 6. Thats also why 3's and 2's are so negligible, imperceptible.

Not hundreds. Exactly 10 times more powerful. You have to jump by 2 points on the Richter scale to achieve a magnitude change of 100.

And I'm pretty sure its the earthquakes, not the Richter scale, that is potentially deadly...

[alms24sebring]

sorry to bust balls but this is an ubber repost. I asked this question before and I will ask it again.

WTF DOES PLANCK'S CONSTANT REALLY MEAN, 6.63E-35 (I think), AND WHY IS IT USED IN ELECTRONICS!?

[corn322]

Isn't Planck's Constant the smallest measurable distance before quantum effects start taking over?

[alms24sebring]

Thats what I thought. Actually I thought it was the smallest distance of anything to exist but still, that doesnt explain why its used in electrical engineering. My teacher never really explained it.

Edit: Wikipedia is my friend.