On a logarithmic scale, humans are closer in size to the observable universe than to the Planck length by approximately 9 orders of magnitude. This means we are effectively one billion times "closer" to the largest observable scales of existence than to the smallest possible physical scale.

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If you were to scale a human up until they were the size of the observable universe, the Planck length would still be microscopic. Conversely, if you scaled a human down to the Planck length, that same human would perceive the observable universe as being a billion times larger than it actually appears to us now.

> If you were to scale a human up until they were the size of the observable universe, the Planck length would still be microscopic. Conversely, if you scaled a human down to the Planck length, that same human would perceive the observable universe as being a billion times larger than it actually appears to us now.

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My first thought after reading the title was to make an OP's mom joke in the comments...but then I caught a glimpse of some purple...so, a human is closer in scale to OP's mom's kindheartedness than it is to a Plank Length.

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