#Scale August 4th

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Significance and importance of an event, person or place is often connected to its size. Determining that often means understanding the SCALE of things related or connected to them.

Examples of that might be athletic competitions. For instance, a local church sponsors a softball team that wins a 6-team league in a town of 5,000. On those 6 teams there are 60 players -10 on each team.

In 2018 it was estimated that some 9,000,000 people in the US played on some type of softball team during the year. Those 10 church softball players on the winning team in 5,000 are a big deal in their league but probably not compared to all the other 8,999,940 softball players. It is scale that is hard to grasp in a lot of issues and that includes our universe.

Solar System, Galaxy, and Universe

For me it is difficult to grasp the scale of the Universe.

With the help of various articles, I recently read I am going to try.

SOLAR System-Our Solar System consists of our star, which is the Sun. It also has our various orbiting planets (including Earth). In addition, there moons, asteroids, comet material, rocks, and dust. 

GALAXY-We belong to the Milky Way Galaxy and our sun is just one of 200-400 Billion Stars.

UNIVERSE-The Milky Way Galaxy is part of the Universe and there are Billions of other galaxies.

The SCALE of those numbers makes it impossible for me to grasp.

Video-Cosmic Voyage

Morgan Freeman has narrated a YouTube video called the Cosmic Voyage. He has done a lot of films. This film helps with the concept of scale. I encourage you to give it a view