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THE LITTLEST THINGS

Added on: 26th May 2015

 

SMALLEST BABY

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In 2006 Amillia Taylor was born as the world’s smallest premature baby

after only 22 weeks of development. She was 10 ounces and 9.5 inches long.

 

 

SMALLEST ARTWORK

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Suffering from dyslexia and other learning disabilities, Willard Wigan

never excelled in school but found solace in creating miniscule artwork

that could barely be seen by the naked eye.

 

 

SMALLEST TEDDY BEAR

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Created by German artist Bettina Kaminski this teddy bear is only 5mm tall.

 

 

SMALLEST LIVING ORGANISM

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The parasitic bacterium Mycoplasma Genitalium that inhabits the

genital and respiratory tracts of primates is widely considered by

scientists to be the smallest organism capable of independent

growth and reproduction.

 

 

SMALLEST NON-LIVING ORGANISM

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Although there is still some debate about what is considered “alive”

and what isn’t, most biologists would not classify a virus as a living

organism due to the fact that it cannot reproduce or metabolize by itself.

A virus, however, can get much smaller than any living organism

including the bacterium we just saw. The smallest is the single stranded

DNA virus Porcine circovirus you see here. It is only 17 nanometres across.

 

 

SMALLEST THING VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

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The smallest objects visible to the unaided human eye are roughly

.1mm long. This means that under the right conditions you would be

able to see an ameoba proteus, a paramecium, and even a human egg.

 

 

SMALLEST OBSERVED OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE

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Over the last century science has made both great strides into understanding

the vastness of space and its microscopic building blocks. When it

comes to figuring what the smallest observable particle in the universe is,

however, we run up against a bit of a wall. At one point we thought they it

was the atom. Then scientists discovered the proton, neutron, and electron.

It didn’t stop there though. Today we know (by smashing particles

together in places like the Large Hadron Collider) that these can be

further broken down into even more particles like quarks, leptons, and

even antimatter. The issue with trying to figure out which is smaller is

that on a quantum level size becomes a bit irrelevant as the rules of

physics you are used to living by begin to break down (some particles

have no mass, some even have negative mass) Unfortunately, trying to

answer this question is something like dividing by zero…not really possible.

 

 

SMALLEST HYPOTHETICAL OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE

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Keeping in mind what we just said about the idea of size being irrelevant

on a quantum level, there exists something known as string theory

and although it is slightly controversial it proposes that all subatomic

particles are composed of vibrating strings that interact in order to create

things like mass and energy. So, although these strings would

technically have no physical dimensions, according to our puny

human ability to reason one could say that these strings would be in

some sense the “smallest” objects in the universe.

 


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