Blog Post 1: Description of 10 nm and a mole of atoms

The speed of light is the quickest form of speed known to man. It takes light 1.3 seconds, roughly, to go from the earth to the moon which is 238857 miles. Light travels at a speed of 186,282.397 miles in a second. Light appears to be instantaneous, when you turn on a flash light and point it at an object it seemingly is illuminated right away. But there is, however, a moment in time when the beam of light is traveling from the source to the object. How short is this time? Well it depends on the distance. In one one billionth of a second, one nano second. Light travels a foot. As you can see the term nano, in mainstream terms, is almost incomprehensibly small.

A mole is specific number of a group of atoms, that number precisely is 602,300,000,000,000,000,000,000 when most look at that they just see 602 and a whole bunch of 0s. But how big is that? The planet earth contains 6,900,000,000 people, a small number in comparison. But such a large number that if we met a new person every single second we would take approximately 3 lives (219 years). Now the amount in a mole is equivalent to 8.7*10^13 planet earth's worth of people (87,000,000,000,000). The insane part is, you can hold a mole of atoms in the palm of your hand (depending on the element.)