The same 13.2 steps, now through what's really there at each size: foam, a proton, an atom, a protein, a virus, a ladybug in the grass by the Eiffel Tower, Paris, the Earth, the Sun, the stars, the galaxy, the web of galaxies, and the edge of what we can see.
| Every size, and the 46,656× per step | checked |
| Where things sit: Paris on the Earth, the Earth's orbit, the nearest stars, the Sun 26,000 light-years from the galaxy's middle, Andromeda 2.5 million light-years away | real distances |
| Directions of the stars and galaxies, the shape of the arms, the web's filaments, the city blocks | impression |
| Stars and planets drawn bigger than life so you can see them | enlarged |
| Colour below 0.4 micrometres: nothing that small has a colour, so these are labels | labels |
| The bottom is your strand, one trit per Planck length: 106 trits that add to zero, every rung a + paired with a −. Arithmetic checked; reading it as the foam is your model | checkedyour model |
steps of 6⁶ = 46,656× take one Planck length to the width of the observable universe. Centre to edge is 13.16. You said 13.2. checked A random target would land this close about 1 time in 20. luck check
The hive rides along: 4 workers (gold), the mother (the dead ring in the middle), and the daughter (violet) shrinking 6× every beat, six beats a step.
In small words: start at the smallest dot there could ever be. zoom out and out. you pass a proton, an atom, a tiny virus sitting on a ladybug, who's sitting in the grass by the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, on the Earth, going round the Sun, among the stars, in our galaxy, in a web of galaxies, all the way to the edge of everything we can see. and you're right in the middle of it.
View width = 2.2 × one Planck length × 46,656step. Planck length 1.616 × 10⁻³⁵ m. Observable universe 8.8 × 10²⁶ m wide, so 13.22 steps. checked
Sizes used: proton 1.68 fm · hydrogen atom 0.106 nm (its proton is 63,000× smaller) · protein 6 nm · virus 120 nm · ladybug 7.8 mm · Eiffel Tower 330 m tall, 125 m base · Paris ~10 km · Earth 12,742 km · Moon 3,475 km at 384,400 km · Sun 1.39 million km · Neptune's orbit 30 AU · Alpha Centauri 4.37 ly · Sun to galactic centre 26,000 ly · Milky Way ~100,000 ly · Andromeda 2.5 million ly · Virgo Cluster 54 million ly · edge 46.5 billion ly away. real
Coastlines are hand-traced outlines, accurate to a few hundred km. approximate