The Universe Isn't Random | It Follows This Number (OFU Ep. 1)

All right, let's break this down using verified data from peer-reviewed sources as detailed in the scale table from my upcoming book's Appendix A.

Imagine zooming through the universe and you'll notice fundamental structures emerging every roughly thousand-fold increase in size.

That's 10 to the three.

with an average logarithmic jump of 2.98 across the ladder.

Starting small, the proton, the building block of atomic nuclei, has a radius of about 8.4 times 10 to the minus 16 meters.

That's from CoDataData2018.

Now let's jump up by around 10 to the five.

It's a bigger leap here.

And you hit the atomic orbital of hydrogen at 5.29 times 10 to the minus 11 meters.

Next, let's scale up by about 10 to the 2.3 to the ribosome.

That's a universal protein machine in cells at 10 to the minus eight meters.

That number comes from bio numbers.

Again, these are all peer reviewed sources.

So another jump of 10 to the two, that's to a bacterium like E. coli, and that's at 10 to the minus six meters.

So let me scan to 10 to the minus six meters.

You see mitochondria at 10 to the minus seven.

Largest virus 10 to the minus seven.

And now we start seeing it 10 to the minus six.

We start seeing bacterium like E. Coli.

So from there, let's multiply it again by roughly three.

It's exactly 10 to the 2.7 actually.

And at 10 to the minus four meters, we're going to see C elegans.

That's a simple multicellular organism.

And this source comes from NCBI data.

You notice here you have tardigrades also.