Humanity is awesome scale of the universe appreciation post:

The scale of the universe goes from 10 to the power -35 meters to 10 to the power 27 meters. In that space humans have been able to create things that range from 10 to the power -9.0 ( carbon nanotube) to 10 to the power 4 ( Large Hadron Collider ).

That means we cover a range of sizes that covers 20.96% of the known scale measurements of the universe.

We, a tiny spec, are able to construct things that fit into 20.96% of the range of sizes across the universe.

That is how overpowered humanity is.

The best part is, while it appears that humanity has stopped in terms of expanding its scale on the larger side of things, humans appear to get better at manipulating ever smaller objects every decade or three.

Today, human technology has advanced far enough as to be able to hold a single atom in place and take its picture. At our current pace it is pretty much guaranteed that we will have successfully gone beyond nanotech to picotech within another century.

The biggest hurdle that exists for the manipulation of objects by man isn't on the micro scale but rather the macro scale where we are yet to figure out how to make an object that is the size of the moon or an object capable of moving the Earth altogether or even just setting up a colony on Mars.

If humanity ever managed to expand all the way across our solar system, we would cover 37.09% of the scale. This is the point where things actually get difficult, as it is nearly impossible to cover the entire galaxy and definitely impossible to get beyond the galaxy as per the current understanding of the laws of physics.

Assuming that humans ever make it to the point of controlling multiple top quarks and neutrinos individually in a lab, the scale at which humans leave an impact from the neutrino to the entire solar system would cover 62.74% of the scale. Making us the most influential spec in the universe.

How cool is that?

Based on the timeline of physics in the past few centuries, we should have a picture of a top quark for the first time by 2140. Taking into account the timeline of human construction projects, we should go one point up on the meter scale every once a century if we are lucky. Once every 2-5 centuries more realistically.

So good news, we are going to definitely figure out everything that exists within a speck of what appears to be nothing to the naked eye until we run out of scale on the low end.

Bad news, our entire species might be spent just colonizing the solar system, failing to ever rise beyond the scale in terms of megaprojects or human expansionism.

We need more innovation and pursuit of glory in our species if we are to survive and thrive in the future.

Conclusion:

Humanity is kino. Look away from the shit flinging and join the cool people.