alt Hacker NewsSay you have a filament that's 1 µm in diameter, and 1 meter long. You want to fill up a 1m^3 (1m W x 1m H x 1m L) space with these, how many of these can you place in such a space? Over a trillion! And thus, the combined km length of these will also be over a billion km. At such small scales things can become very long when summed up.
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augusto-moura • today at 5:01 PM
It is obvious when you think that 3d volumes scale cubicly and 1d lengths scale linearly. Adding another 1 meter to a cube of said filaments would increase the total length by a power of 3!
euroderf • today at 2:41 PM
How would this compare with packing the volume with DNA ?
Everytime I see people talking about the length of their coastlines ...
Look at how long this edge of my fractal is, Ma!