Which seems suprisingly high given that it's 92 protons worth of antimatter!
replyDefinitely, I've had a mosquito hit me while flying and you can actually feel it hit your skin.
replyThe subject of this story is a single proton that you would definitely feel if it hit you: https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/OhMyGodParticle/
replyE=mc^2 and c^2 is a big number.
replyindeed, but note that c^2 is just a factor to convert between units here and is completely arbitrary (or rather, c is so high because our units are human scale)
replyindeed, in the most natural systems of units in this area, we set c = 1 as to simplify the equations
8 minutes to do a mere 1AU. Pretty slow.
reply(not /s for clarification)
499.004783836 seconds. So, more like 8.32. I initially looked it up because I misremembered AU being a diameter rather than a radius.
reply> c^2 is a big number.
replyFamous tweet about conversations with God.
[1] - https://x.com/WraithLaFrentz/status/1981404849305686219
Except the fine structure constant
replyWolfram Alpha says it's approximately _one-sixth_ the kinetic energy of a mosquito in flight
replyWhen we're talking scales like 10^-23, "one" and "one sixth" are comparable enough to warrant an "approximately".
replyI'm not sure! One is just barely within human scale and one isn't. I think I could feel the impact of a mosquito on a sufficiently sensitive patch of skin. I'm not sure I could do the same with one sixth of a mosquito. Its like the difference between something I can lift (100 lb) and something I definitely cannot lift (600lb)
replyEven though you can't lift the 600 lb object it's still in the correct ballpark for illustrative purposes when dealing with orders of magnitude.
replyIn a similar vein a 20 gallon fishtank and a small bathtub are approximately the same despite that I can't actually fit in the 20 gallon fishtank myself.
It's also the difference between 1lb and 6lbs also, so the analogy isn't perfect. The problem is that once you approach the limits of the average human ability, multipliers can transform something possible into something impossible.
replyI'm pretty sure I could feel one sixth of a mosquito hit me, because I've been pelted by much smaller gnats before!
(It does depend on where, of course.)