Hydrogen Atom Scale Model

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

This Hydrogen Atom Scale Model may not be too practical, but it makes its point:

The page is scaled so that the smallest thing on it, the electron, is one pixel. That makes the proton, this big ball right next to us, a thousand pixels across, and the distance between them is… yep, fifty million pixels (not a hundred million, because we’re only showing the radius of the atom. ie: from the middle to the edge). If your monitor displays 72 pixels to the inch, then that works out to eleven miles — making this possibly the biggest page you’ve ever seen.

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