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<p>It is a link to a search, not a video. It does not work for me
either (Firefox, Window 11).</p>
<p>Peter<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/29/2024 9:28 PM, Robert Primak
via LCTG wrote:<br>
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<div> On Sunday, December 29, 2024 at 09:18:05 PM EST,
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net"><jjrudy1@comcast.net></a> wrote: </div>
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<p class="yiv0311372601MsoNormal">There was an
interesting video made more than a decade ago that
looked at, as I recall, size. It started with a
person, and then grew, piece by pice one order of
magnitude to show what things are like at different
scales. Then it did the same thing backwards by
1/10 at s time. I recall us showing the video at
the club a long time ago. Cannot recall what it was
called.</p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> LCTG
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Primak via LCTG<br
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 29, 2024 8:47
PM<br clear="none">
<b>To:</b> Lexington Computer and Technology
Group <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us"><lctg@lists.toku.us></a>; Peter
Albin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:palbin24@yahoo.com"><palbin24@yahoo.com></a><br
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lex Computer & Tech
Group/LCTG] Radiolab: What is the most
average size thing</span></p>
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<p class="yiv0311372601MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">I agree about the
second part being of a nonscientific
interest. But nonetheless, of some interest,
I think. (Not to our group for meeting
purposes, of course.)</span></p>
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<p class="yiv0311372601MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">The first part is
interesting from a technology point of view.
The engineers in our group are always
talking about doing "back of the envelope"
estimates of stuff, and that's exactly what
this segment was about. As with all such
estimates, certain assumptions had to be
made.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv0311372601MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">I was curious about why
the idea of the Universe being 10^93 meters
across (based on Cosmic Inflation, not the
farthest that light has ever traveled) was
rejected out of hand. That would have made
the estimate orders of magnitude bigger. But
the use of the Planck Distance does seem
reasonable, because below that size the
fabric of space-time seems not to be
measurable as a distance.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv0311372601MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Interestingly enough,
at least a couple of sets of their
assumptions led to the same result, but that
might have been confirmation bias. </span></p>
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<p class="yiv0311372601MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Too bad this isn't a
video, because that would make it more
useful for a meeting. But maybe someone in
the group who is much better at math than I
am might try to develop a slide show based
on these estimates, and explain where some
of the assumptions may have come from. </span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#26282A;">On
Saturday, December 28, 2024 at 09:05:16 PM
EST, Peter Albin via LCTG <<a
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wrote: </span></p>
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<p class="yiv0311372601MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#26282A;">Listen to
the first half of this Radiolab podcast
(~30 min) to answer </span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#26282A;">the
question:</span></p>
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<p class="yiv0311372601MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#26282A;">"First,
after graduating from high school,
without a clear plan for what </span></p>
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<p class="yiv0311372601MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#26282A;">to do
next, Laura Andrews started asking
herself a lot of questions. A </span></p>
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<p class="yiv0311372601MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#26282A;">spiral of
big philosophical thoughts that led her
to sit down and write </span></p>
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<p class="yiv0311372601MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#26282A;">to us
with a question that was… oddly
mathematical. What is the most </span></p>
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<p class="yiv0311372601MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#26282A;">average
size thing, if you take into account
everything in the universe. </span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#26282A;">So, along
with mathematician Steven Strogatz, we
decided to see if we </span></p>
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<p class="yiv0311372601MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#26282A;">could sit
down and, in a friendly throwdown of
guesstimates and quick </span></p>
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<p class="yiv0311372601MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#26282A;">calculations,
rough out an answer. "</span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#26282A;"><a
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#26282A;">If you
are curious, the second segment (
specific moment in history when </span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#26282A;">the world
tried to find the "average" human body)
is also interesting, </span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#26282A;">though,
less scientific!</span></p>
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