2024-12-02 ┃ edited ┃ RE: futurebird
@futurebird We just put everything inside a logarithm and call it a day! :D But yes, it's really, really hard to internalize those scales. We just get used to it I guess.
It does however complicate science communication. The scales –and the jumps of scale– are so large that saying things like "This is X times more massive/larger than/further than Y" usually involves stupidly large X and/or a Y that is already well beyond our daily experience.
https://mastodon.online/@astro_jcm/113582889866761327
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