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the size of a human body be halved to reach the size of an atom (a size unknown until the twentieth century)? The answer is about 33. Going in the opposite direction, one can ask how many times the size of the human body should be doubled to reach the size of a typical star, like our Sun, the largest object known by Pascal. The answer is 30. Thus, counting in doublings, the size of a human being is nearly halfway between an atom and a star—certainly not two infinities,
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