Wow

[jubei33]

yeah, you know they have a virus out there that's 440nm? the aptly named "megavirus" and mamavirus were recently isolated. The size of the genome and its contents are evidence of their descendance from a common ancestor, which is controversial.

[W. Rabbit]

Did I see right that it had an electron as larger than either a proton or a neutron?

That's the classical (pre quantum mechanics) size of the electron, the Lorentz radius: 2.82x10^-15 m

[battlefields]

Awesome.

[nils]

Also watch this video:



And the classic film every student of physics has to watch in first semester:

[Polish beast]

Yeah, I saw this a few days ago on apod (google it, they have really cool pictures).

[Robstafarian]

I officially love this.