Awkward_Mongoose7679
Awkward_Mongoose7679 t1_iyaprl6 wrote
Reply to comment by gangstasadvocate in Seemingly Impossible: Nanostructure Compresses Light 10,000 Times Thinner Than a Human Hair by Shelfrock77
Well a rough idea of that size: 1/10th a human hair is the size of one of your cells. So a thousand times smaller…it’s pretty lil
Awkward_Mongoose7679 t1_iyct3l2 wrote
Reply to comment by OnlyMatters in Seemingly Impossible: Nanostructure Compresses Light 10,000 Times Thinner Than a Human Hair by Shelfrock77
It was an over simplification but you can approximate a human hair to be about 100um and cells to be about 10um. Hence 1/10th. Depends on the hair and the cell type you looking at but it was just meant to illustrate the scale of what the article is talking about. i.e. very small