Somebody told me yesterday that in China they have a giant topographic sand table of all of Tibet. The model is one Kilometer long.<\/p>\n
I found myself wondering whether you could see tiny people on that sand table. Here are the calculations to figure that out.<\/p>\n
Tibet is 2500 Km long, which means you would need to shrink down a person by a factor of 2500. And if a person is 6ft tall, then they are 1.8288 meters tall, doing the conversion from feet to meters.<\/p>\n
So the person will appear on the table as 1.8288 \/ 2500 meters tall. Which is 0.00073152 meters.<\/p>\n
Or about 0.7 mm, which is still visible. Tiny, but definitely visible.<\/p>\n
Now I know the answer, and I am happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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