how big are atoms compared to viruses compared to bacteria etc?

Question

I was listening to radiolab and they mentioned that bacteria are usually 100s of times bigger than viruses. I’ve never really had a good sense of the relative sizes of microscopic things, but always wanted to.

So if a virus was human sized, would a bacteria be building-sized? Would an atom be the size of a penny? Basically, if you were to map the microscopic world onto the visible world, what would things be?

In: Biology

Answer 1

There’s a great video by Epic Spaceman on YouTube that does an awesome job illustrating the scale of the very small.

[Link](https://youtu.be/rn9dkV4sVYQ?feature=shared)