Ultimate Size Comparison

From the unfathomably small Planck Length to the Universe itself... and beyond.

NOTE: The sizes for many of these objects are approximate, especially those that are very, very small, or very, very large. The purpose of this video is to show just how wide the range of size scales is.

List of Objects in order of appearance
Plank Length (smallest length that has any meaning in physics)
Strings
CalabiYau manifold
Planck Particle (Smallest theoretical particle)
10,000 Planck Lengths
100,000,000 Planck Lengths
10 Yoctometers
Neutrino
Upper Limit for the size of an Electron
Upper Limit for the size of a Quark
Theoretical width of a Cosmic String
Upper Limit for the size of a Fundamental String
Proton
Neutron
Uranium Nucleus
Hydrogen Atom
Oxygen Atom
Uranium Atom
Bucky Ball
Photograph taken by Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Carbon Nanotube
DNA Strand
Ribosome
Parvoviridae (smallest known virus)
Influenza Virus
Bacteriophage
Mycoplasma (smallest known bacterium)
Mimivirus (largest known virus)
E. Coli Bacteria
Mitochondrion
Smallest Wavelength of Visible Light
Chloroplast
Red Blood Cell
Amoeba
Astrocyte
Dust Mite
Thiomargarita namibiensis (largest known bacterium)
Grain of Sand
Mustard Seed
Red Ant
Monte Iberia Eleuth (smallest known amphibian)
Jaragua Sphaero (smallest known reptile)
Golf Ball
Floppy Disk
Compact Disk
Approximate Size of a YouTube Viewing Window
Labrador Retriever
Rafflesia arnoldii (largest known flower)
Horse
Tiger
Lion
African Elephant
M1 Abrams Tank
Blue Whale (largest known animal)
Westminster Abbey
Titanic
Sequoia (largest tree)
Great Pyramid
Eiffel Tower
Pentagon
Empire State Building
World Trade Center
Sears Tower
Petronas Towers
Taipei 101
Burj Dubai
Boeing Everett Factory (largest building)
Ayer's Rock
Vatican City (smallest country)
Grand Canyon
Mount Everest (tallest mountain)
Palm Jumeirah (largest man-made island)
Kansai International Airport
Deimos (smallest moon)
Manhattan Island
Phobos
Andorra
Rhode Island (smallest state)
Greater London
Neutron Star
Korea
Charon
Great Barrier Reef (largest coral reef system)
Australia
Pluto (left)
Triton (right)
Moon
Io
Mercury
Titan
Mars
Venus
Earth
HD 69830 b (largest known rocky planet)
Neptune
Uranus
Saturn
OGLE-TR-122b (smallest known star)
Jupiter (largest solar planet)
Upsilon Andromedae b (largest known planet)
Sun
Sirius
Pollux
Arcturus
Rigel
Antares
VY Canis Majoris (largest known star)}
Solar System
Homunculus Nebula
Stingray Nebula
Cat's Eye Nebula
Pillars of Creation
Eagle Nebula
Crab Nebula
Orion Nebula
Omega Centauri
Nucleus of the Whirlpool Galaxy
Tarantula Nebula (largest nebula)
NGC 1705
NGC 1569
NGC 281 Dust Cloud (*apologies* this object is much, much smaller than it is depicted, however I believe that's the only error)
Large Magellanic Cloud
Whirlpool Galaxy
Antennae Galaxies
Milky Way Galaxy
Cartwheel Galaxy
Pinwheel Galaxy
Messier 87
IC 1101 (largest known galaxy)
Local Group
Virgo Super Cluster
Eridanus supervoid
Sloan Great Wall (largest known object)
Estimated Size of Observable Universe
Estimated Size of US National Debt by 2014

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[d3008]

@SuperRonnieJ1183 good video, bad comment

[daberko120ch]

@MykesterMachinima Ya... just go to "ultimate scale of the universe" in google. I love that.

[MykesterMachinima]

@SuperRonnieJ1183 i remember seeing this on newgrounds before where you can interact with it rather than watching a laggy video

[SuperRonnieJ1183]

good idea, bad execution

[AllNamesWereOccupied]

@siwrulez In my english class we learn to "translate" into phonetics manually, that way we get correct pronunciation :)

[siwrulez]

@AllNamesWereOccupied

Using a phonetic transcription based on the English language would unfortunatelly be inaccurate. ;)

However, the IPA-transcription of "Planck" would rightly be:

/pʰlaŋk/

Using an English-based phonetic transcription would rather create something like:

/pʰɫæŋk/

Hope I could help. ;)

[AllNamesWereOccupied]

I had no idea a planck length was that small, it makes me feel huge. But then there is the rest of the video that makes me feel so small. Imagine how many cubic planck lengths there would fit in VY Canis Majoris

[AllNamesWereOccupied]

@siwrulez A tip use, fonetics ;)

[manabrau]

neat! :)

[oldnotweak]

@pyromaanisi puny mortal