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[–] minticecream 50 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Feels like that square should be a lot smaller

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago

Exponential scales will do that.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

I found this annotated version.

"Human experience" apparently includes anything from 0.01 seconds to 300 years, or 0.1 mm (diameter of human hair or ovum) to 10,000 km (cca length of Eurasia).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And less square

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You can live between 0 and ~1XX years and you can travel between 0 and x km where the largest case for x is probably the people on the ISS.

So rectangle might make sense but obviously there is no chance for someone that dies as a infant to have traveled as far as an adult. Also the people on the ISS probably wont be the oldest people alive. So the edges would have to be cut off diagonally of sorts.

Or is this more like a "This is the scale of things that humans can observe" type of thing.

So we can see close stuff and really far stuff like stars and we can practically observe from milliseconds up to a century.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think it‘s more about the latter; what humans can comprehend/percieve.