A Humbling Comparison of the Smallest and Largest Things in the Universe

The True Scale of the Quantum World If you place humans between the smallest and the largest things in the universe… which side are we closer to? Imagine zooming into a pen — first you see atoms, then the nucleus, and then even smaller particles like quarks and gluons. But beyond that lies the smallest possible scale — the Plank length, about 1.6 × 10⁻³⁵ meters, smaller than anything we can imagine. Now zoom out — past Earth, our galaxy, and even beyond the local cluster — until you reach the ed