How Small Is A Proton, Really?

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  • @malachitestorm
    @malachitestorm 6 місяців тому +32373

    People often say something in the lines of "oh, we're so little and insignificant compared to stars and galaxies", but sometimes they should remember that we're also huge compared to atoms lol

    • @abby786able
      @abby786able 6 місяців тому +612

      but we ARE atoms lol

    • @ARockRaider
      @ARockRaider 6 місяців тому +741

      in addition, we are host to an entire ecosystem within and on ourselves.
      trillions of micro organisms that do not share our DNA yet require us to live as much as we require them.

    • @AHumanBeing280
      @AHumanBeing280 6 місяців тому +41

      Why are you laughing out loud after saying that?

    • @abby786able
      @abby786able 6 місяців тому +255

      @@AHumanBeing280 seemed funny. sorry i ll take your permission next time

    • @explorateur8159
      @explorateur8159 6 місяців тому +31

      ​@@abby786ablereductionism is silly, it's oversimplification - the philosophy.
      Check your worldviews bruhh

  • @SerafinAyala-gk9yu
    @SerafinAyala-gk9yu 6 місяців тому +16285

    This is the craziest size comparison in my life!

    • @pabloevuu5232
      @pabloevuu5232 6 місяців тому +73

      Yeah .. I just can’t wrap my head around it tbh 😵‍💫

    • @kellendustries
      @kellendustries 6 місяців тому +44

      The craziest attempts to clarify something I saw was one of the scientists who built the JWST trying to explain how little light it could see and he said something like "It's like looking at a child's nighlight on the moon from earth in broad daylight" um... thanks? totally clears it up LOL

    • @zswag007
      @zswag007 6 місяців тому +11

      Totally agree, don’t know if to feel small or big

    • @Gusttafa
      @Gusttafa 6 місяців тому

      You should definitely put it in you CV because this must be life achievement for you. Pathetic edit from pathetic person who feels acknowledged by random internet people so much he needs edit original comment and thanks them. Cant be more beta

    • @Matthew_Is_Here
      @Matthew_Is_Here 6 місяців тому +9

      Wait until you see the comparison of the size of a human with the observable universe…

  • @abhiramvadali5582
    @abhiramvadali5582 Місяць тому +138

    That was actually a good way of putting it, thanks!

  • @kryptoniridium
    @kryptoniridium 6 місяців тому +7851

    This is the only time "American standard measurement system" explained something so clearly to me.

    • @gregedwards1087
      @gregedwards1087 6 місяців тому +198

      But these things are so small that the Bald Eagle just does not get a look in.......

    • @michaelng7274
      @michaelng7274 6 місяців тому +109

      She did include the length in meters for the rest who uses SI.

    • @vez3834
      @vez3834 6 місяців тому +48

      ​@@michaelng7274 (it was a joke)

    • @FurNaxxYT
      @FurNaxxYT 6 місяців тому +100

      ​@@michaelng7274metric is cool and all, but it definitely doesn't have the same intuition as saying it's like looking at a grain of salt from space

    • @SnailHatan
      @SnailHatan 6 місяців тому +15

      @@vez3834No. jokes have set-ups and punchlines and are funny and make sense, which the comment doesn’t. There is no joke. Cry about it

  • @blazer9547
    @blazer9547 6 місяців тому +2605

    Now let's see Paul Allen's atom size

    • @codysullivan6529
      @codysullivan6529 6 місяців тому +54

      This hit me on a comedy axis I wasn’t prepared for. Thank you friend 😂

    • @syedsaad3085
      @syedsaad3085 6 місяців тому +166

      Look at that subtle electron cloud distribution. The elegant thickness of the orbitals. Oh my God, it even has a unique isotope...

    • @budbutterson9577
      @budbutterson9577 6 місяців тому +11

      @@syedsaad3085 You win.

    • @dewantouhid116
      @dewantouhid116 6 місяців тому +5

      Comment of the year hands Down 😂

    • @elijahknox4421
      @elijahknox4421 6 місяців тому +3

      This short has nothing to do with American psycho and yet you still have 1.5k likes 😂

  • @ljrodriguez25
    @ljrodriguez25 3 місяці тому +26

    Love the way you break down scale!!

  • @APerson-14
    @APerson-14 6 місяців тому +410

    imagine that our entire universe is just one subatomic particle to a higher life

    • @Snakeybloo
      @Snakeybloo 4 місяці тому +26

      Its a singularity compared to the nothingness beyond it

    • @darkstar3558
      @darkstar3558 4 місяці тому +27

      I've been thinking about that theory my entire childhood lol

    • @jtteope1178
      @jtteope1178 4 місяці тому +18

      universe might be a proton fr, we could have duodecillions of universes in our hair

    • @ayeenscal28
      @ayeenscal28 4 місяці тому +6

      This idea is mind blowing.

    • @8xus_1
      @8xus_1 4 місяці тому +4

      And that higher life is a sub-microscopic subset of an even bigger omniverse

  • @ShaharHarshuv
    @ShaharHarshuv 6 місяців тому +715

    Most people also don't realize how big the earth is. It took me moving across the atlantic to start realizing it.

    • @stixoimatizontas
      @stixoimatizontas 6 місяців тому +57

      And then you have a flatearther going up to his terrace, takes a picture of the horizon and goes like It LoOkS FlAt To Me, CaN SoMeOnE ExPlAIN

    • @_blank-_
      @_blank-_ 6 місяців тому +7

      ​@@stixoimatizontas I honestly can't blame flat-earthers, most people can't demonstrate why the Earth is round

    • @TLex-em5bh
      @TLex-em5bh 6 місяців тому +45

      @@_blank-_it’s pretty simple. Look at the curve of the earth. Or pics from nasa. Or any of a thousand different things. Most flat-earthers don’t actually believe it, they just think the government is lying to them and want to voice any opinion that might be close to theirs.

    • @stixoimatizontas
      @stixoimatizontas 6 місяців тому +16

      @@_blank-_ It's not that I blame them, but at the same time whose fault is it when they cannot do 1+1?

    • @iRossco
      @iRossco 6 місяців тому +16

      ​@@stixoimatizontasor worse, claim intelligence yet believe 1x1=2 🤦‍♂️

  • @2nd-place
    @2nd-place 4 місяці тому +33

    It really makes you wonder if there is a much, much, _MUCH_ larger scale above us that we aren’t even aware of.

    • @yoshi_xrated
      @yoshi_xrated 15 днів тому

      Crazy huh?! We're a small pile of dust compared to what's out there

    • @Nosirt
      @Nosirt 21 годину тому

      Of the smallest length, plank length and the entire universe, humans are almost right in middle of the size. But we are still a bit closer in size to the entire universe than we are to the plank length.

  • @viduraherath4008
    @viduraherath4008 6 місяців тому +1195

    For the americans, thats about 0.0000001 bald eagle wingspans

    • @GoogleAreEnemyCombatants
      @GoogleAreEnemyCombatants 6 місяців тому +53

      Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu . . . that's tiny!

    • @GaryHarper-i9z
      @GaryHarper-i9z 6 місяців тому +17

      Don't know if this is accurate, but it's a novel comparison! 😮

    • @nechamaschafer7734
      @nechamaschafer7734 6 місяців тому +49

      Oh thank gosh I was looking for a translation 🙏

    • @Terra_Lopez
      @Terra_Lopez 6 місяців тому +5

      @@nechamaschafer7734 I love how you build on the joke! 😊

    • @acronus
      @acronus 6 місяців тому +25

      Measured in *FREEDOM UNITS*

  • @cosmorito961
    @cosmorito961 6 місяців тому +448

    Nucleus: grain of rice
    Proton: grain of salt
    Electron:😐

    • @DJSekuHusky
      @DJSekuHusky 6 місяців тому +170

      Neutron: "Maybe stop being so negative all the time and you wont be left out as much."

    • @MAZ501
      @MAZ501 5 місяців тому +36

      it won't even stay still to be measured or weighed and changes if coerced.

    • @Hixcnsn
      @Hixcnsn 5 місяців тому +39

      also quarks and gluons

    • @arthurlobo2
      @arthurlobo2 5 місяців тому +11

      Photon be like ~~~

    • @ComeForMeDaddy
      @ComeForMeDaddy 4 місяці тому +1

      Lol​@@DJSekuHusky

  • @SabriyaJaffer-v2r
    @SabriyaJaffer-v2r 2 дні тому

    I truly love how you explain this in a visual and clear way for people, in stead of using “oh this is a nano meter of this” the way you explained the size comparison through life size items is genuinely incredible for people like me who are visual thinkers ❤

  • @TheDramacist
    @TheDramacist 6 місяців тому +574

    I find the gaps between neutrons and electrons more intriguing

    • @sebastianstoica578
      @sebastianstoica578 4 місяці тому +13

      Yeah, that's empty space.

    • @seamusforever7081
      @seamusforever7081 3 місяці тому +1

      And also the density of neutrons.

    • @S0dif
      @S0dif 3 місяці тому +15

      in reality electrons are much farther than shown in the short. Zinc for example has a radius of ~134 picometers, whereas the width of a single proton is 0.00083 picometers. that means its entire radius is over 161,000x as big as a single proton.
      only the real ones got this far

    • @kylebieth3678
      @kylebieth3678 3 місяці тому

      ​@@S0difim here for it brother

    • @ImproMooray
      @ImproMooray 3 місяці тому

      Grain of rice in a school bus that's all of its mass the entire thing is empty

  • @morgannaomi1231
    @morgannaomi1231 4 місяці тому +694

    You keep saying "optimistic" while simultaneously causing me to have existential crises every time I see these types of videos 😂

    • @charliestewart5164
      @charliestewart5164 4 місяці тому

      haha

    • @nathanwahl9224
      @nathanwahl9224 4 місяці тому +1

      Strange, but OK I guess.

    • @broski365
      @broski365 3 місяці тому +5

      Stay curious and adventurous , girl!

    • @EduardoCruz-lk1xp
      @EduardoCruz-lk1xp 3 місяці тому

      I'm there right very now.

    • @DarrenHwang
      @DarrenHwang 3 місяці тому +6

      I'm always amazed by people with existential crises as reactions 😂. It's like... Why? I want to know

  • @ihavenoidea3565
    @ihavenoidea3565 13 днів тому

    Idk about this but, I've been watching Nozomi for like 3 years or something, and her videos always make me feel ths same warmth and comfort to my heart that I always felt watching her very first uploads, it's literally my comfort zone where I can just get to after any long exhausting day , love you so much Nozomi ❤️🙏🏻

  • @johnlarson505
    @johnlarson505 6 місяців тому +37

    Nice video. People have a very difficult time understanding the true scale of things. This did a really good job in helping conceptualize the size of a proton.

  • @KAND33D
    @KAND33D 6 місяців тому +919

    Ah, the typical American measure of soccer fields and school bus

    • @theluchakabuto5206
      @theluchakabuto5206 6 місяців тому +37

      I like how there are actual non “American measurement lol” measurements included for every length, and the soccer fields and buses are there as a useful visual for picturing these measurements, but this sentiment is still most of the top comments lol

    • @davidnika446
      @davidnika446 6 місяців тому +18

      Should've used micrometers for every comparison. Much more familiar and intuitive.

    • @drackula1985
      @drackula1985 5 місяців тому +8

      Football fields. They made a mistake in the video.

    • @Rapzy610
      @Rapzy610 5 місяців тому +2

      It worked though

    • @Rapzy610
      @Rapzy610 5 місяців тому +4

      ​@@drackula1985Nah she fuckin didnt

  • @neutronine
    @neutronine 3 місяці тому

    Your eyes express such curiosity and aww. It really draws me in. Your enthusiasm slays!

  • @josh3342
    @josh3342 6 місяців тому +26

    You explain things so well-don’t stop!

  • @bijisivakumar8225
    @bijisivakumar8225 6 місяців тому +340

    Fun fact: A quark(that is what protons are made of and there is not a smaller particle discovered) is so small that u appear like the universe for them
    Edit: thank u for 300 likes

    • @vimal-cliobconsulting
      @vimal-cliobconsulting 6 місяців тому +8

      Strings

    • @NeeratiKanishk
      @NeeratiKanishk 6 місяців тому +14

      It's still a theory ​@@vimal-cliobconsulting

    • @DrEggCake
      @DrEggCake 6 місяців тому +10

      ​@@NeeratiKanishkit's still a cool theory

    • @mrfancyshmancy
      @mrfancyshmancy 6 місяців тому +5

      ​@vimal-cliobconsulting still a theory, but even if we could verify it. Quarks aren't 'made up' of strings, they are a string.

    • @danceswithcritters
      @danceswithcritters 6 місяців тому +21

      Quarks are among the smallest known particles and are considered elementary within the current framework of the Standard Model. Whether they are truly the smallest or if there are even more fundamental entities remains an open question in the field of physics.

  • @greggollaher5053
    @greggollaher5053 3 місяці тому

    I only found your channel a short time ago, but I think you're doing a really good job. This kind of information benefits young minds a great deal. Keep up the good work.

  • @sprince0029
    @sprince0029 6 місяців тому +171

    And there are quarks that make up protons, it's amazing!

    • @explorateur8159
      @explorateur8159 6 місяців тому +6

      & then quantum fields or potential smaller, unobservable objects as well !

    • @explorateur8159
      @explorateur8159 6 місяців тому +7

      Also, according to some models, a proton could be around 900x larger than a quark!
      So it's crazy to imagine something 900x smaller than a grain of rice (when scaled in her depiction), because how could we ever observe it ???

    • @candyb357
      @candyb357 5 місяців тому

      Quarks don’t exist
      If you disagree, explain how the sun fuses hydrogen into helium on the quark level. Specifically when are the quarks in a neutron coming from?

    • @nolafluff
      @nolafluff 5 місяців тому

      @@candyb357 the first part is easy and we have yet to find out the second part:
      Proton-Proton Fusion:
      Two protons (hydrogen nuclei) come together to create a deuterium nucleus, a positron, and a neutrino.
      This initial fusion step produces a release of energy.
      Deuterium Formation:
      Deuterium (also called heavy hydrogen) is a nucleus composed of one proton and one neutron.
      In subsequent reactions, deuterium fuses with another proton to form helium-3 (designated as 3He).
      Again, energy is released during this process.
      Helium-3 to Helium-4 Fusion:
      Two helium-3 nuclei (3He) collide and fuse, resulting in the most common form of helium: helium-4 (designated as 4He).
      This final step releases even more radiation and energy.
      i hope this helps you understand

  • @curiouscollective8572
    @curiouscollective8572 4 місяці тому +130

    I love these comparisons, it helps me better understand the worls around me! Thank you.

  • @itchyego9
    @itchyego9 Місяць тому

    The more I watch her and the more I learned from her, I’m just astonished how good she is at making the complex very understandable.
    Wow, I’m hooked on learning science from her!
    Tell someone that the size of an atom is like a grain of salt compared to the size of the Earth is just mind blowing to me and so understandable.

  • @tortugalot8944
    @tortugalot8944 6 місяців тому +39

    This kind of thing makes me amazed how human life could ever have gotten close to existing

    • @iRossco
      @iRossco 6 місяців тому +6

      You want to look up molecular machinery animations (or something like that) it will blow your mind. Eg. DNA replicating, or cells dividing & these molecules walking along the molecular strands. 🤯

    • @Alexadria205
      @Alexadria205 6 місяців тому +5

      It took billions of years of evolution. You really got to wrap your head around how much time that really is.

    • @FrostSpike
      @FrostSpike 6 місяців тому +6

      @@Alexadria205 And it took a whole planet (at least) to do it. That's an awfully big Petri dish running that experiment for aeons of time.

    • @maryamsalah135
      @maryamsalah135 4 місяці тому

      Do you really believe that all of this came out of nowhere?

    • @FrostSpike
      @FrostSpike 4 місяці тому

      @@maryamsalah135 When you say "nowhere", can you clarify what you mean by that?

  • @FebruaryHas30Days
    @FebruaryHas30Days 6 місяців тому +78

    "like the distance from Paris to Rome"
    My brain: *I see you like Europe*

  • @sonnyjohnson8429
    @sonnyjohnson8429 2 місяці тому +19

    If an atom was the size of Wembley football stadium then the nucleus would be the size of a small garden pea and the first electron would be a grain of sand whizzing around the furthest edges of the stadium

  • @MrAdBounty
    @MrAdBounty 6 місяців тому +16

    Very good comparison, can very easily visualise it

  • @shwethapm8848
    @shwethapm8848 6 місяців тому +74

    That’s crazy to think about. Now imagine the size of an electron - 1837 times smaller!

    • @sam183796
      @sam183796 6 місяців тому

      You just made me smile, my name on all social media etc. is sam1837. My dad told me a story about 1/1837 and his teacher telling them to remember it. You don't see 1837 quoted very often now. They found the number more accurately. But thanks for making me smile.

    • @tylisirn
      @tylisirn 6 місяців тому +20

      The size of an electron is... weird. To the best of our knowledge and ability to measure, electrons are point particles, they have no size in any kind of classical sense. They have mass, but no physical extent.

    • @pyropoops139
      @pyropoops139 6 місяців тому +4

      electrons don’t really have a size, they’re a probability cloud

    • @юля801
      @юля801 6 місяців тому

      Wait i thought its 1438 smaller lol

    • @tonywells6990
      @tonywells6990 6 місяців тому

      1837 times less massive. Their size can be much much smaller than a proton, to the size of an atom (the electron cloud).

  • @verymuchtom
    @verymuchtom 4 місяці тому

    great comparison! i’m working towards my masters in nuclear physics and i haven’t even really thought about just how small subatomic particles really are. 0.8 fm just isn’t comprehensible no matter how long you work with the stuff.

  • @EvanUnknown
    @EvanUnknown 6 місяців тому +8

    This was a whole ass speech and I’m here for it all

  • @Dr.K.626
    @Dr.K.626 6 місяців тому +5

    Wonderful visualization!! Thank you for the terrific content!!😊🎉🥇

  • @dreamsbyte
    @dreamsbyte 2 місяці тому

    Brilliant inversion of scale for visualisation, amazing graphics. Seems I have to subscribe.

  • @nutronite199
    @nutronite199 6 місяців тому +65

    And the Quarks!

    • @hrishikeshsaikia476
      @hrishikeshsaikia476 6 місяців тому +1

      Uud
      Udd

    • @vimal-cliobconsulting
      @vimal-cliobconsulting 6 місяців тому +1

      And strings

    • @NeeratiKanishk
      @NeeratiKanishk 6 місяців тому

      ​@@vimal-cliobconsulting it's still a theory

    • @royk7712
      @royk7712 6 місяців тому

      Quark doesn't have physical form. It's a signal which something probably exist there. According to normal condition, splitting proton into quark just make them instantly form another quark to form another particle

    • @hrishikeshsaikia476
      @hrishikeshsaikia476 6 місяців тому

      @@royk7712 LHC did prove that quark exist at least in extreme conditions. Yeah it can be said that particles are held together so tightly as they are bound together by strings. Physics is really amazing.

  • @DecipherXXV
    @DecipherXXV 6 місяців тому +9

    Its crazy how we we're able to study about these tiny things and I'm excited for the day we can get an actual clear image of one atom

    • @FrostSpike
      @FrostSpike 6 місяців тому

      It was done in 2023. Search for "quantum microscopy hydrogen atom argonne national laboratory"

  • @moisesdaibelapereira
    @moisesdaibelapereira 3 місяці тому +1

    Is there limitless particles inside and outside there? Science is really the best gift to make our lives easier more fashioned, fun and much more.

  • @andrewmiller8402
    @andrewmiller8402 6 місяців тому +9

    I’ve heard that we’re closer to being the size of the observable universe than to the smallest scales of the universe

    • @iRossco
      @iRossco 6 місяців тому +3

      A comment somewhere here indicated about 2/3rds of the way

    • @NullScar
      @NullScar 3 місяці тому

      As above, so below.

  • @mohadam1182
    @mohadam1182 5 місяців тому +6

    This comparison made me understand how small an atom is really easy, I find myself brainstorming for hours thinking how small an atom or proton is

    • @misterturkturkle
      @misterturkturkle Місяць тому

      And it goes the other way too
      Were that small compared to solar systems and galaxies

  • @Thefitnessguy211
    @Thefitnessguy211 20 днів тому +2

    Today I learned, the earth is made out of busses and grains of salt

  • @morisn
    @morisn 4 місяці тому +27

    I've always entertained a Dr Seuss's kind of alternate reality where there is actually an ecosystem existing at an atomic level and they consider it as being as huge as the Solar system. How amazing that would be, wouldn't it?

    • @Master_Lobster
      @Master_Lobster 4 місяці тому +1

      Yeah it’d surely be amazing

    • @RajPatel-tq3xx
      @RajPatel-tq3xx 2 місяці тому

      ong i always thought of that since watching that one movie where there's an entire world inside one little spec

    • @morisn
      @morisn 2 місяці тому +2

      @@RajPatel-tq3xx conversely, we may be trapped in a huge atom-like structure where we might be microscopic particles compared to higher structured beings. Who can deny that the expansion of the universe as it's claimed, could be just the growth of a monumental living creature whose growth progress could be measured in billions of years... Imagination can be truly infinite.

  • @RonnieJamesOsbourne
    @RonnieJamesOsbourne 2 місяці тому +8

    "To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour."
    -William Blake

  • @ImmortalLemon
    @ImmortalLemon 4 місяці тому

    I just recently became a machinist in a very high precision shop so I’ve only begun to actually get a somewhat ok grasp on the huge world of the very small. I cannot wait to refine my view of this scale

  • @knifie2008
    @knifie2008 6 місяців тому +34

    A proton is well .... a mass of 1850 electrons..... hope the relative comparison helped u actually feel the size :)

    • @Iluke67
      @Iluke67 6 місяців тому +3

      *mass

    • @knifie2008
      @knifie2008 6 місяців тому +1

      @@Iluke67 corrected :)

    • @esaedvik
      @esaedvik 6 місяців тому +1

      no.

    • @stixoimatizontas
      @stixoimatizontas 6 місяців тому +1

      Too big of a number, cannot relate to the difference between 2 and 4 apples😝😝😝

  • @AILaboratory.
    @AILaboratory. 5 місяців тому +5

    Instructions unclear, my brain exploded.

  • @anejkamsek
    @anejkamsek 3 місяці тому

    Love this woman, she explains stuff in a very friendly and interesting way.

  • @liggerstuxin1
    @liggerstuxin1 4 місяці тому +21

    What’s crazy is that we seem to be in the center scale of the extremely large and the extremely big. We have things that are atomically amazingly small, and then we have universes that seem to be equidistant from our medium size (very roughly). It’s like everything about our entire life and existence is medium.

    • @nieka5030
      @nieka5030 3 місяці тому +3

      I feel like that could be a result of what we can measure/visualize though. The rate at which we can study big things and little things is pretty because it's all up to what technology we have, so there's only so far in either direction that we will be able to see without further technology.

    • @liggerstuxin1
      @liggerstuxin1 3 місяці тому +3

      @@nieka5030 really good point right there. If we were on the atomic scale, then we would not be seeing the planets. Just lends your mind as such curiosity of what the hell is bigger than the universe and what is smaller than the smallest particles… there’s no way we see all of reality. Apparently there’s even 95% right next to us that we can’t see.

    • @nieka5030
      @nieka5030 3 місяці тому +6

      @@liggerstuxin1 sometimes I think about what if it's just a big fractal and somehow within the smallest objects there's another cosmos with another universe and there's no amount of zooming in or out to reach an end. It's like the definition of existential dread for me though lmao

    • @LightAlkmst
      @LightAlkmst Місяць тому

      It's also possible that we're far on one end of the scale and we just haven't hit either end yet, so we might not even be close to the middle at all.

    • @liggerstuxin1
      @liggerstuxin1 Місяць тому +1

      @ yeah maybe all of the important life forms are below a tardigrade. We wouldn’t even see their civilizations. Maybe the atoms are their planets. Or maybe our universes are their atoms

  • @rvxn
    @rvxn 6 місяців тому +22

    That's the craziest and confusing comparison I've ever seen

  • @litaafrim9790
    @litaafrim9790 15 днів тому

    Amazing all those video that you have !!!!
    Great great work !

  • @MrBeatz-vh6yg
    @MrBeatz-vh6yg 6 місяців тому +16

    No one:
    An electron: I’m actually 1/1840 of a grain of salt

    • @justynpryce
      @justynpryce 6 місяців тому +5

      In mass, but in size we do not know. The electron may be infinitesimal.

    • @stickynote6969
      @stickynote6969 6 місяців тому

      ​@@justynpryce kindly elaborate

    • @justynpryce
      @justynpryce 6 місяців тому +2

      @@stickynote6969 electrons are fundamental particles. For all fundamental particles we do not know their size, they may even be pointlike and have no size at all. For reference their "size" would be the extent of their collapsed wave function.
      It's very difficult to get this value because the only way to get an answer is to do scattering experiments at very high energies so that the interactions can happen before the beams get too deflected by electromagnetic forces. For a proton this is easy cus we can just throw neutrons at them so that the interactions only start happening at the range of the strong force. For an electron not so much since we'd need fundamental neutral particles we can reliably fire in a beam and detect after the scattering. We cannot do that with neutrinos at the moment.

    • @iRossco
      @iRossco 6 місяців тому

      ​@@justynprycehow can you 'throw' neutral particles at them if they have no charge?

    • @justynpryce
      @justynpryce 6 місяців тому +3

      @@iRossco There are a few ways. You can use a radioactive source which has neutron radiation and only use a small angular cross sectrion of the emission. You can also use a beam of charged particles like alphas or protons to knock off neutrons in the direction you care about. Alternatively you can take the approach of having something heavy like tritium or deuterium where the effect of the electric charge will be smaller compared to the mass. Also, not neutrons, but if you have high enough energy charged lepton-antilepton collisions you can get tight beams of neutrinos!

  • @lightingninjaff2831
    @lightingninjaff2831 6 місяців тому +8

    Planck hold my beer😂😂

  • @SluggishGamer
    @SluggishGamer 3 місяці тому

    That explanation makes it a lot easier into truly understanding the size difference! Thanks :D

  • @insernamehereflynn
    @insernamehereflynn 6 місяців тому +4

    This was awesome!

  • @viewtubetheultimatechannel
    @viewtubetheultimatechannel 5 місяців тому +4

    Proton: I'm the smallest!
    Electrons, neutrons, quarks, leptospirosis and gluons: Are you sure about that? 🤨

  • @Josh-J19
    @Josh-J19 3 місяці тому

    You know what I love the way you explain stuff man it's just so understanding love it 💗 btw I subed

  • @saiajaygarine6382
    @saiajaygarine6382 6 місяців тому +7

    Yes, but your are my biggest crush😊

  • @2MANYWWWWWWWWWWWWS4U
    @2MANYWWWWWWWWWWWWS4U 6 місяців тому +5

    But how big is an electron? 😝

  • @eddieesparza2635
    @eddieesparza2635 4 місяці тому

    You are the perfect example of how a teacher should be…thank you for sharing ❤

  • @theofficialfluffy
    @theofficialfluffy Місяць тому

    I knew that protons were extremely small, but this helped me comprehend it completely. It’s insane how small protons really are

  • @TitanXAmrit
    @TitanXAmrit 15 днів тому +1

    Fast growing. Keep it up❤

  • @chowsindahouse
    @chowsindahouse Місяць тому

    Children would learn much more with Teachers with incredible enthusiasm like your. I know there are some out there

  • @alexander0922
    @alexander0922 25 днів тому

    Fun thing about astronomical sizes, descriptions begin to stop working the bigger or smaller you go.
    That’s why you had to make this comparison. There is no word for something the size of a particle because nothing is the size of a particle except the particle itself.

  • @sao_rav
    @sao_rav 2 місяці тому

    The graphics was solid and truly a full brainer! ❤

  • @mr_slowbaru
    @mr_slowbaru 3 місяці тому

    I was actually having a really rough day and have been overthinking and stressing a lot. But these videos helped me feel like everything’s okay lol. Thanks 😅

  • @obSUde
    @obSUde 3 місяці тому

    Man I love your enthusiasm and energy, I sure am gonna sub

  • @ChaoticTwins-wb3nu
    @ChaoticTwins-wb3nu 2 дні тому +1

    Love ur explanation

  • @FederalBuereauInvestigation
    @FederalBuereauInvestigation 18 днів тому +1

    So glad that I’m conscious to experience this

  • @FerrellRamey
    @FerrellRamey 3 місяці тому +1

    If I had a science teacher like her, I would have been early to class everyday!

  • @ChintuVlogger_Real
    @ChintuVlogger_Real 2 місяці тому +1

    Easy explanation and easy to understand really😊❤🙏🏻🔥💯

  • @Mono_Autophobic
    @Mono_Autophobic 3 місяці тому +1

    Fun fact : proton isn't really that small now, as we discovered length that would be a grain of salt infront of proton (which is assumed to be earth now)

  • @simcityman81
    @simcityman81 2 місяці тому

    This is probably the best description of the scale I’ve ever seen/heard.

  • @bendyboy8249
    @bendyboy8249 2 місяці тому +2

    And the quarks inside electrons, protons and neutrons are even smaller. These show that the universe is something called fractals, where it could get getting smaller for infinity.

  • @jamesblunt006
    @jamesblunt006 3 місяці тому +1

    Wow. Actually I wondered about this and finally can imagine the size of an atom or proton for the first time.

  • @haziquniverse
    @haziquniverse 4 місяці тому +1

    If I had to choose three UA-cam channels to follow, I would follow you, Neil de grasse Tyson, and my brother

  • @bhupindergadh
    @bhupindergadh 2 місяці тому

    Amazing! Wonderful! Very helpful. Learned so much!

  • @ReidVR
    @ReidVR 2 місяці тому

    First channel that I have subbed to in a whileeeee

  • @isentropic8279
    @isentropic8279 Місяць тому

    Great analogy. Very educational and fun.

  • @HoneyGuys-w5x
    @HoneyGuys-w5x 4 місяці тому

    That was brilliantly done thank you

  • @dacovato3609
    @dacovato3609 Місяць тому

    UA-cam knows that I’ll watch most of your videos, and I wasn’t even subscribed, until now.

  • @bulletmc4992
    @bulletmc4992 2 місяці тому +1

    Here is a more crazy size comparison, actually, there is a smallest hypothetical particle called planck particle, which is the size of a planck length, planck length is the exact same length that photon travels in a planck second which is the smallest unit of time, but you may say time is infinitely divisible, but when you think about one thing, that, what is time? Time is in which particles move or age right? So when a particle can move the least is planck length then how much will it travel in less than planck second? Nothing right? So its the smallest length, and you may think how small it is, look down, haha jk, here's the crazy comparison i talked about in the start:
    The comparison is to a planck length to atom
    If you take the earth as an size of atom, than that original size of photon will be the size compared to the atom (Planck Length)

  • @CameronLerch
    @CameronLerch 3 місяці тому

    One of the coolest things I’ve ever learned was that LIGO is so precise that when it detects gravitational waves, it’s equivalent to measuring 1/1000th the width of a proton

  • @otuekongudofia6798
    @otuekongudofia6798 3 місяці тому

    Wow! The best size comparison I've ever seen on this topic.

  • @julietdouglas9718
    @julietdouglas9718 Місяць тому

    Best explanation ever 😊

  • @abhinavsingh1093
    @abhinavsingh1093 Місяць тому +1

    Atoms are 99.99% free space. Yet the whole universe exists on them. Just crazy. This fact alone shows that matter is all about force fields and energies. We are just highly localised set of energies I guess.

  • @maxeadon2021
    @maxeadon2021 3 місяці тому +1

    What makes me smile is that atoms don't actually touch, it's the EM force and the fact at electrons cannot occupy the same space. Atoms should be renamed Pauli's repulsive balls.

  • @knuxuki1013
    @knuxuki1013 3 місяці тому

    Thank you, you keep this all so interesting

  • @evolutiagames
    @evolutiagames 19 днів тому

    This is a great comparison, but it makes me feel like I have no idea how large the earth really is 😂

  • @MiamiV14
    @MiamiV14 Місяць тому

    Shows you that no matter how small, EVERYTHING matters

  • @AxelLeJeff
    @AxelLeJeff 16 днів тому

    The salt to rice ratio is about what I expected, but the school bus is where I was surprised.

  • @GamerXPlayz
    @GamerXPlayz 2 місяці тому

    This definitely deserves a like

  • @Jaggy_8
    @Jaggy_8 2 місяці тому +2

    And now imagine an electron is about 2000 times smaller than a proton 🤯

  • @MuhammadIqbal-dp2es
    @MuhammadIqbal-dp2es 2 місяці тому

    Understandable. Very well explained

  • @craftix_playz
    @craftix_playz 4 дні тому

    She really explanains it in the easiest way possible 😊

  • @ALMIGHTY_TALLEST_0RPLE
    @ALMIGHTY_TALLEST_0RPLE 4 дні тому

    Atoms are actually constructed of Quarks and preons (the smallest particles observable) which are made out of (the theory of) super strings, that are made of tiny vibrations and are 10^20 meter long

  • @EpokFard_GG
    @EpokFard_GG 27 днів тому

    These size comparison actually helps to understand the distances, the Americans aren't stupid, they're smart cause if you say this bridge is 5 yellow school busses long, then you can take the length of the bus and multiply it by 5

  • @MikhailCazi
    @MikhailCazi 2 місяці тому

    I love her she's so fun to watch when stoned it's just positivity and the advance of the human race 😍

  • @JacksonWacksonFlackson
    @JacksonWacksonFlackson 3 місяці тому

    This is legitimately the best way of visualizing it

  • @ILikeGhostsOfTabor
    @ILikeGhostsOfTabor 21 день тому

    Hey, I think the size comparison is great, and I mean no disrespect when I say this, but strands of hair are not made of cells, the hair Follicles that make the hair grow from your head or made of cells, your hair is just collections of atoms, like cells, but they’re more related to an animate objects than they are us because there is No cells in our hair just Atoms. Keep up the great work!

  • @ApeiriophobicGD
    @ApeiriophobicGD 3 місяці тому

    I like how you showed the Quarks in the proton by using shadowed spheres

  • @ayushmansanjeev5487
    @ayushmansanjeev5487 3 місяці тому

    This is the video that earned my subscription

  • @sueadamson9623
    @sueadamson9623 19 днів тому

    It's kind of like light waves. Like you said "As humans we experience such a tiny slice of the full scale of reality. But there's so much more!"