A first-year physics teacher once told the class something that stuck with me (paraphrasing): "Nothing is big or small by itself. I want you to always follow these words with 'compared to ...'".
bo10241 day ago | | | parent | | on: 47749299
Sewing machine.

https://xkcd.com/2754/

cubefox1 day ago | | | parent | | on: 47749299
She: It's not that big.

He: I think we can agree everything below the average between a Planck length and the size of the observable universe is objectively small, and everything above is objectively large. Using the geometric mean, that average is about 0.12 mm. Therefore my penis is actually large.

She: I shouldn't have married a physicist.

zahlman1 day ago | | | parent | | on: 47749957
> Using the geometric mean, that average is about 0.12 mm

That's... actually kinda cool to know.

leni5361 day ago | | | parent | | on: 47749957
Average? So around half the size of the observable universe?
quietbritishjim1 day ago | | | parent | | on: 47750192
They specified the geometric mean.

The arithmetic mean (what you're thinking of) of 1 and 100 is 50.5.

The geometric mean of 1 and 100 is 10. It gives a sense of the average magnitude.

leni5361 day ago | | | parent | | on: 47751133
They edited the comment, previously it did not mention geometric mean.
cubefox1 day ago | | | parent | | on: 47751210
The geometric mean seems to be the natural mean for relative comparisons between lengths, because the mean of (Planck length, observable universe) is clearly very different from the mean of (house, observable universe).