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the scale that makes your problems shrink and your jaw drop simultaneously
means The quality of being immense — vast, overwhelming size, scope, or degree beyond easy measure.
from From Latin immensitas, built on immensus, 'unmeasurable' — literally in- ('not') plus mensus, the past participle of metiri, 'to measure.' So at its root, immensity is what the ruler gives up on: the thing too big to take the measure of. The same metiri family gives us 'measure,' 'dimension,' and 'immense' itself, all circling the idea of laying out and gauging. It entered English through French in the late Middle Ages.
- observable universe
- spans roughly 93 billion light-years across
- atom mostly empty
- vast voids hide inside every speck of matter
- more stars
- galaxies outnumber Earth's grains of sand
- sublime root
- philosophers named the terror-joy of overwhelming scale
- largest known star
- could swallow billions of our suns
observable universe — 93 billion light-years in diameter, containing 2 trillion galaxies
great barrier reef — 2,300 kilometers long coral system off australia, visible from space
siberian taiga — 5 million square kilometers of forest spanning russia, largest biome on earth