A day or two ago I posted about the Mandelbrot Set, because why not. Here is a “Mandelbrot zoom” with a zoom factor of 101091.
10E1091 is a big number. How big? Here are some facts generally useless in day to day life:
How many planck lengths fit in the universe?
Assuming the observable universe is 93 billion light years across, 5.4×1061 Planck lengths would stretch from side to side. Why is this important? Because a Planck length, or 1.6 x 10–35 meters, is the smallest size there is. It’s essentially the “pixel” of reality. You can’t zoom down below it. So something with a scale factor of 101091 can fit a *lot* of universes 5.4×1061 pixels wide in it. In fact, on the order of 101030 universes could fit side-by-side within that full animation, if you assume that at the deepest part of the zoom factor, one pixel on screen equals one Planck unit.
And you think it’s a long way down the road to the chemists.