![]() ![]() Naturally, you will wish to retire to a safe place to observe the spectacle. In either case, get ready for a really big bang. In fact, you will need to gather up everything there is-every last mote and particle of matter between here and the edge of creation-and squeeze it into a spot so infinitesimally compact that it has no dimensions at all. ![]() If you'd prefer instead to build a more old-fashioned, standard Big Bang universe, you'll need additional materials. I'm assuming of course that you wish to build an inflationary universe. Now pack into that tiny, tiny space about an ounce of matter. ![]() Now imagine if you can (and of course you can't) shrinking one of those protons down to a billionth of its normal size into a space so small that it would make a proton look enormous. So protons are exceedingly microscopic, to say the very least. Protons are so small that a little dib of ink like the dot on this I can hold something in the region of 500,000,000,000 of them, rather more than the number of seconds contained in half a million years. It is just way too small.Ī proton is an infinitesimal part of an atom, which is itself of course an insubstantial thing. NO MATTER HOW hard you try you will never be able to grasp just how tiny, how spatially unassuming, is a proton. ![]()
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