Galaxies to Nanometers - Wrap Your Brain Around This!

The Earth’s circumference at the equator is 24,901.55 miles (the red line on the map)
From Portland Maine, Los Angeles California is 2,644 MILES away (the red line beyond the map)

About Nanometers: A week or two ago I shared some insights on Nanometers. I described them as microscopically microscopic. That is, when you zoom into something microscopic, a nanometer is still too small to be seen. The only way I can put it concisely, for those who may not stick around for this whole post, a Nanometer is microscopic – even at the microscopic level.

I want to share more research I did on Nanometers. First, I wonder if you have heard Louie Giglio’s speeches about the universe. I like comparisons. Louie Giglio got me hooked on comparisons when I first heard his speech about the size of other planets in comparison to the earth. To give a very general overview of what Giglio said:

There are planets so huge that if the Earth were the size of a golf-ball, in comparison, there is a planet with the width of two golden-gate bridges. Another planet is so big that, if the Earth were the size of a golf ball, this planet’s width is the length of something like two Eiffel Towers on top of each other! The last planet that Giglio spoke of utterly amazed me. If the Earth were represented as a golf ball, and that golf ball was placed beside this last planet, than it would be like a golf ball next to Mount Everest! So, climb to the top of Mount Everest, place a golf ball on a tee at the top, climb down and then look up at that golf ball – and that is the size of the Earth in comparison to this star/planet.It is difficult to wrap my mind around the vastness of these planets. This information, as intense and unbelievable as it is, isn’t the beginning of the measurement or understanding of the universe, or the God who created it.

Nanometers . . . I don’t have a clue where to begin! Okay, so I mentioned before that a Nanometer was so tiny that 750 million of them can fit across the width of a strand of human hair. I did some figuring, and found other interesting ways to think about the Nanometer. Instead of a golf ball, I thought a pea would be more fitting for this task.

I found that, if a Nanometer were the size of a pea, the width of a strand of human hair would be 26,600 miles long! To help you understand this, look at that photo. These lines put together equal about 27,545 miles long. Imagine, now, a giant strand of hair. These lines put together represent the approximate width of that piece of hair. Long-ways, the hair is laying North/South – and you are merely looking at how thick the piece of hair is. That is how wide one piece of hair would be in comparison to a nanometer, if a nanometer were only the size of a pea.

The smallest of things can crush us, be careful of what you are getting yourself into!
The greatest of things can humble us, be careful of where your mind is when pride becomes an
issue!

Our God is so BIG that He created the many stars within countless galaxies - the whole universe that is still expanding! Yet, He paid attention to each detail. Nanometers - even atoms! And to think that all of it was created through Christ Jesus for Christ Jesus. Knowing this, it is amazing to think that He still became one of us because of His unfathomable love for us, and held it all together even as a man. (Colossians 1:15-23)

I'm amazed at the wonder in creation. I'm sure there is much more to learn! And I'm sure when my time of learning it comes, I will share it with you. I hope you have better understood and seen the greatness of God by the examples used in this post and my humble attesting to it in my own life.