• Shialac@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    These two words mean the same thing, why would you be able ti picture one thing but not the other?

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      1 year ago

      Try it, count grains of sand in your head whilst you picture them. Unless you’re a savant, it probably starts getting a little blurry around the teens, maybe a bit higher. You can use tricks like imagining a grid of ten by ten to picture a hundred etc, but it’ll still be rather blurry. Picturing a million of something is literally impossible, human minds aren’t designed for that.

      If you wanted some sand to line your new brick driveway, would you ask the builders merchant for a x tonnes of sand or a x million grains of sand? It’s the same difference.

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          1 year ago

          The point is that you can easily estimate a meter.

          Look to the horizon and estimate a kilometre and I’ll bet that your error is significant by comparison to your estimate of a meter.

          There is a big difference between imagining/understanding a concept and judging it accurately in the real world.