Scientific Cosmology

According to an article in the fall issue of the Queen’s Quarterly, the diameter of a proton or neutron is considered to be 10^-13cm. For context, the author of this article, Lisa Randall, also mentioned that the accepted diameter of the visible universe is 10⁺²⁸cm. This is the use of physics to delineate accurate parameters for a contemporary scientific cosmology. Effectively, this author off-handedly placed bookends at either end of the spectrum of space. What she is saying is that everything we know has a spatial dimension of X such that [10^-13cm ≤ X ≤ 10⁺²⁸cm].

In addition to these cosmological parameters, I would like to add:

- The width of my thumb - _______________10^+0.3979cm

- The length of my foot print - _____________10^+1.1449cm

- My height - _________________________10^+2.4472cm

- The linear distance between London Ontario and
Toronto- __________________________10^+7.2214cm

- The diameter of the Earth - _____________ 10^+9.1057cm

- The distance that light travels in one second - _10^+10.4768cm

- The distance between the earth and the sun - _10^+13.1749cm

Now, here is a similar structure for time:

- Period of radiation in a caesium-133 atomic clock -10^-11.7416min

- Period of a contraction of a hummingbird’s heart - 10^-3.0792min

- Period of a contraction of a human human heart - 10^-1.8573min

- Amount of time it takes me to drop a bouncy ball
from my shoulder height - _________________10^-1.6021min

- Period of a contraction of a Grey Wale’s heart - _10^-0.9542min

- My age - ____________________________10^+7.1069min

- The age of Canada - ____________________10^+7.8652min

- The age of the Earth - __________________10^+15.3806min

- The age of the Universe (According to NASA’s
WMAP) - __________________________10^+16.9366min