Or think of it this way: if an atom were magnified to the size of the solar system ... Starting at an everyday scale, we travel by powers of 100 down into the shadowy world of strings.
"We expect matter to be evenly distributed everywhere in space when we view the universe on a large scale, so there should be no noticeable irregularities above a certain size," Lopez explained.
Determine an appropriate scale, depending on whether you want to show the edge of the universe, approximately 15 billion light-years away, or the objects closer to the Earth, for which you will ...