The Lab · Workshop 08 · Mastery
Where We Are in the Universe
Five steps. About 25 minutes. Up to 7 stars. The constellation you're building is called First Cosmos.
The Lab · Workshop 08 · Mastery
Five steps. About 25 minutes. Up to 7 stars. The constellation you're building is called First Cosmos.
You live on a small rock orbiting a medium star in the outer arm of an average galaxy in a universe with at least two trillion other galaxies. That's the address.
The scales here are designed to break your brain. Earth is 8,000 miles across. The Sun is 109 Earths across. The Sun is 93 million miles away. The next-nearest star is 25 trillion miles away. Our galaxy contains 100 billion stars. There are 2 trillion galaxies.
The point isn't to memorize numbers. The point is to feel the proportion. You are unimaginably small. And you are also one of the only known things in the entire universe that can think about how small it is.
By the end of this workshop you'll have placed yourself at every scale — from your room to the observable universe — and noticed something the scale changed.
That's the warm-up. When you've actually read it — not skimmed — tap below.
Pick all that are true.
Click a scale, then a thing at that scale.
Write your address at 6 scales: room → house → city → country → planet → solar system → galaxy → universe. Note one thing each scale changed for you.
Stuck? Start small. "My room is the corner one." Build outward. By the time you reach galaxy you'll be writing "the Milky Way." Then "the Local Group." Then "the Observable Universe."
One sentence. Be honest.