| Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps by Kees Boeke (1957) |
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This is already the third jump we have made since we saw the atom from the
outside in -8 and we are still in the seemingly endless emptiness of the inside.
The chance of our meeting an electron has again become a hundred times
smaller. The color in consequence is again a lighter grey. The wave length of
the gamma ray has increased to 5 centimeters. The grain of salt which was only
half a millimeter when we saw it in actual size on the girl's hand has now become
an unthinkably huge cube with sides of more than 50,000 kilometers. The
nucleus of the sodium atom is 0.7 millimeters and of hydrogen 0.2 millimeters.
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