A thought on Dr. Seuss’ birth week
If we generously assume that little cat A is 1 meter tall, and that each subsequent cat[n+1] is half the height of its predecessor cat[n], then Little Cat L would be less than half a millimeter (as small as the naked eye can see), Little Cat W would be the last cat visible through a microscope, and Little Cat Y would be 0.0000596 mm, or 59.6 nanometers, about the size of a virus. Thus Little Cat Z, at 29.8nm, would not be the first cat that was too small to see.
March 4th, 2009 - Posted in Uncategorized | |
