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by ewams 2069 days ago
Thank you. That is what I was thinking but the different sizes kind of got me.
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If you don't mind watching a nearly 50 year old video then I can recommend "Powers of Ten" [0], attempting to visualize the different scales on which things are happening in the universe we know of. It is a very short video, just 9 minutes long.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

Re "sizes", fwiw, you might like [1]. Something I wrote as conversation prep - loads slowwwwly. Quarks are much smaller than their proton. IIRC, >1000x smaller.

[1] http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/Atoms#view-nucleons