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I can relate relate to the thickness of a hair but I can't relate to the size of a red blood cell so... If Mr Bohr ia an average sized 1.8 metres tall and is only a little smaller than the diameter of the hair after the first shrinkage that means that after the second shrinkage where he's 100 nm tall that the hair is about 1000 times wider than that. I calculate it would take him a good 20 minutes to walk past the end of the hair and in his world this chip is about the size of a pool table



At 1:31 it shows a far away shot of him, the hair and the chip. Before he's shrunk to his final size the chip is already about the size of a large building. Do you mean the transistor is about the size of a pool table?


Sorry, yes, that was what I should have wrote




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