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One Atom Keeps Doubling Next to an Ant. How Many Times to Pass the Sun?
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One atom, doubled again and again next to an ant, grass, a mountain and the Sun. A viewer asked for this one.
At 26 doublings it is an ant, and a water drop won't let go. At 34 it is your height. At 40 its weight cracks the ground, and at 47 it is taller than Everest.
64 doublings is the Tower of Hanoi number: 1,844,674 km, wider than the Sun. At 123 nothing is left to compare it to.
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