The scale of the Universe

A funny zoomable illustration of scales from the Planck scale to the Hubble scale which differ roughly by 60 orders of magnitude. Note the big desert right after the string scale.

Well, the authors - Cary and Michael Huang (htwins.net) - could have included some GUT scale and intermediate scales etc. but their simplified version might be morally right.



The picture above has 10^{60} times 10^{60} pixels :-) but they are cleverly compressed so that they can be squeezed into a small Flash file.




Full screen: click here.
Embedded into a page: click here.

Thanks to Peter Fellin and his nephew (whose age equals the critical dimension of superstring/M-theory but it's not clear which of them) for the URL.