Let’s make everything one-billionth (10-9)
as big as it really is
(9 orders of magnitude smaller)
The Earth: Diameter =
13000 km = 1.3x107 m
1.3x107x10-9 ~ 10-2 = 1.3 cm (a marble)
The Sun: Diameter =
1,400,000 km = 1.4x109 m
(about 100 times the Earth’s)
so it must be 1.4 m
(about a foot less than my
height)
Earth-Sun Distance = 1.5x1011 m (1 Astronomical Unit)
1.5x1011x10-9 = 1.5x102 m = 150 m
or about one-and-a-half football fields