| Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps by Kees Boeke (1957) |
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It will be noticed that the tone that symbolizes the probable presence of an electron
is again a lighter grey than that of the previous drawing, because the
actual area depicted in the square is here again reduced to 1/100th. The sinusoid
coming from the left shows the wave length of a typical gamma ray (wave
length here 5 millimeters) such as is emitted from a radium-dial watch. The girl
of picture 1 would on this scale have a length of about 15 million kilometers! The
salt crystal would now be more than 3000 kilometers high. The sodium nucleus
would be 0.0333 millimeter, the hydrogen nucleus (a proton) 0.01 millimeter.
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