The Scale of the Universe

[Stuart]

This is a rather fun and interesting graphic. It may take a while to load if you're not jamin or QBM.

http://htwins.net/scale2/

[hamin_aus]

That was well worth the 45 seconds I had to wait

[ADT]

Pretty awesome

[StarBound]

So much white around that back button. Almost makes me nurvous.

[Tribble]

WOW

I want to read up about quarks

[doo_much]

Quark?

Spoiler (show)

[StarPhoenix]

"Three Quarks for Muster Mark" [Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce]. This is supposedly where Murray Gell-Mann got the name from.

Quark - refers to 6 types of elementary particles named up, down, strange, charm, bottom and top. They make up composite particles such as protons and neutrons. That's all I think I know.

I now hand you over to Kalster, Jamin or Rusty to explain the sciencey stuff.

[Tribble]

Right you are birdie

@doo lol. I prefer plain simple Garrick

[RiaX]

A quark is a type of subatomic particle that was recently discovered by SERN using the hadron particle collider. There are many sub atomic particles some are responsible for magnetism, mass, charge and other forces. Those that haven't been found are a graviton and a couple others I can remember. Although they have been given names these particles are not well understood and most of the information on them is still theoretical and dependent on the mathematics of quantum physics rather than practical observation.

I haven't opened the link will later when I'm not on my iPad, but the universe is huge if you were to make a pencil dot on a page that would represent the milky way galaxy, so the edge of the visible universe in relation to that dot would be somewhere by the orbit of mars.

Anyways these experiments are very recent I wouldn't take them as fact just yet

[Tribble]

A quark is a type of subatomic particle that was recently discovered by SERN using the hadron particle collider.

I don't think so.

The quark model was independently proposed by physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig in 1964.[5] Quarks were introduced as parts of an ordering scheme for hadrons, and there was little evidence for their physical existence until deep inelastic scattering experiments at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in 1968.[6][7] All six flavors of quark have since been observed in accelerator experiments; the top quark, first observed at Fermilab in 1995, was the last to be discovered.[5]

[RiaX]

Fermilab is a particle accelerator based lab.Mathematically quarks have been proved long ago but mathematics is not sufficient to proving science. You have to have mathematical evidence as well as practical evidence

I'm not sure but isn't Fermilab part of SERN?

[Tribble]

I don't somehow see that being part of CERN. They are linked to the US Department of Energy

http://www.fnal.gov/

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a US Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics. As of January 1, 2007, Fermilab is operated by the Fermi Research Alliance, a joint venture of the University of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology and the Universities Research Association (URA). Fermilab is a part of the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor.

Fermilab's Tevatron was a landmark particle accelerator; at 3.9 miles (6.3 km) in circumference, it was the world's second largest energy particle accelerator (CERN's Large Hadron Collider is 27 km in circumference), until being shut down on September 30, 2011. In 1995, both the CDF and DØ (detectors which utilize the Tevatron) experiments announced the discovery of the top quark.

[RiaX]

Ok my mistake

[Stuart]

Here is another fun graphic. It's like 6MB in size, so click the link at your own discretion.

[Tribble]

Pictures like this really puts things into perspective

[RiaX]

lol i like pictures like these