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How Big Are Things?
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  millimeter's Room - looking at the entire room
  mm = 10-3 m
look at a sheet of graph paper
 
galaxy21
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local stars18
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between15
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E's orbit12
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sun9
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texas6
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hood3
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you0
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salt grain-3
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bacteria-6
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atom-9
10-3 m    1 mm
10-2 m    10 mm
10-1 m    100 mm
100 m    1000 mm (1 m)

    grain of sugar ~ 1 mm marble ~ 10 mm your hand ~ 100 mm

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An old New Jersey pier
high tide (2000)
high tide (1900)
low tide (2000)
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