Monday, January 26, 2026

Size and distance are relevant - or is it relative?

 
What if the sun was the size of a grain of sand? Easy - if the sun were a grain of sand, Earth would be about 1 inch away. Jupiter would be 5.2 inches away and Pluto, 40 inches away. The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, would then be 4.3 miles away.






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Size and distance are relevant - or is it relative?

  What if the sun was the size of a grain of sand? Easy - if the sun were a grain of sand, Earth would be about 1 inch away. Jupiter would b...