The Scale of the Universe

The Scale of the Universe displays a title screen that redirects to a white background with various objects, including a human and a plant. It has a slider on the bottom that can zoom in and out to see the scale of different objects such as asteroids and plants. The further the user zooms in, the further down in scale it gets. The user can zoom in until the Planck length is reached and visible, or zoom out until the observable universe is in full view. == History ==

Inspiration in 2023. Cary Huang first came up with the idea for The Scale of the Universe in 2010 when his seventh-grade science teacher put up a video that compared the sizes of different cells. Cary said that he felt it was mesmerizing seeing larger ranges of different sizes, which inspired him to make and code the page. At some point they also released other versions such as "wrong", in which the objects are randomly rescaled. In 2012, they released a new version called The Scale of the Universe 2, in which users can click on objects to see infoboxes with information about the object. == Recognition and impact ==

The Scale of the Universe was featured on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day on October 7, 2018. In 2020, animation studio Kurzgesagt released the app Universe in a Nutshell, which took inspiration from The Scale of the Universe. The main-belt asteroid 10003 Caryhuang was officially named by the International Astronomical Union on June 16, 2021, partly in recognition of Cary's involvement in The Scale of the Universe. ==See also==