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gangstasadvocate t1_iya9c1g wrote

Surprisingly doesn’t sound all that small to me in the microscopic scale of things but I mean hell yeah if they say it’s progress then ight

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Awkward_Mongoose7679 t1_iyaprl6 wrote

Well a rough idea of that size: 1/10th a human hair is the size of one of your cells. So a thousand times smaller…it’s pretty lil

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OnlyMatters t1_iybqkrh wrote

What? If that’s true then a human hair is 5 cells wide, which its not.

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Awkward_Mongoose7679 t1_iyct3l2 wrote

It was an over simplification but you can approximate a human hair to be about 100um and cells to be about 10um. Hence 1/10th. Depends on the hair and the cell type you looking at but it was just meant to illustrate the scale of what the article is talking about. i.e. very small

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OnlyMatters t1_iyd0z49 wrote

I retract my comment. I had no idea that a hair was so small / cells were so large.

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Shelfrock77 OP t1_iybn3jw wrote

If you can make a better microscope, you can zoom in forever. This is what ties into multiverse theory.

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