Peter Y. Chou
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An acorn boasts "From this tiny 3 grams seed sprang the mighty oak weighing 24 tons— increase Acorn 3 grams in weight Angel Oak, South Carolina 24.4 tons in weight Acorn, or oaknut, is the nut of Oak trees (Querus). An acorn is one inch high, half-inch diameter, and weighs approximately 3 grams. (Earlier estimate of 5-6 grams weight turned out to be Acorn jewelry!). Angel Oak in Charleston, South Carolina, stands 65 feet tall with 28 feet circumference. It provides shade over an area that covers some 17,200 square feet, and its longest branch measures 187 feet. Since its weight is not given on sites of this tree, it was calculated using Weight of Standing Hardwood Trees (University of Arkansas). Tree Circumference 113 inches weighs 8.21 tons; Angel Oak 28 feet = 336 inches 113/336 = 8.21 tons/x; x = 8.21/0.3363 = 24.41 tons = 48,820 lbs = 2.2 x 10 kg Oak / Acorn = 2.2 x 10 kg / 0.003 kg = 733 million times Photo Sources: Acorn (wonderopolis.org); Angel Oak (monumentaltrees.com)

730 million times— Squirrels that would eat me are now living in my branches— Hard to top that!" Squirrel Eating Acorn Squirrel on Branches Squirrels in Tree Trunk Squirrel in Black Oak Before my calculations of 730 million times increase in weight from Acorn to Oak, I was inspired earlier by Master Subramuniya's observation: "as the mighty oak tree unfolds into all its glory from the tiny acorn. For truly, the poetential of the oak lies vibrating with the atomic structure of the acorn, as does the flower live within the bud, and the SELF within man." (Cognizantability, 1970, p. 156). Photo Sources: Squirrel Eating Acorn (ucanr.edu/); Squirrel on Branches (realtree.com); Squirrels in Tree Trunk (gbi.photoshelter.com); Squirrel in Black Oak (thesquirrelnutwork.wordpress.com) Redwood seed laughed— "A pound holds 100,000 of me that grows to 16 trillion times in weight." Redwood Cone Redwood Seeds Hyperion Redwood (1.6 million lbs) Coast Redwoods I've written about Platonic Lambda Λ Redwoods based on my hikes encountering Coast Redwoods in the Bay Area (2008-2012). A Redwood Cone is 3/4 inch to an inch long. Each cone contains 14 to 24 tiny seeds about the size of a tomato seed. It takes 100,000 seeds to weigh a pound. Hyperion Tree is a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in California that was measured at 115.92 m (380.3 ft), which ranks it as the world's tallest known living tree. Hyperion reaches 379.7 feet with diameter of 24 feet & 1.6 million lbs. Redwood seed weights 1/100,000 lb. Hyperion Tree weight / Redwood Seed weight = 1.6 x 106 lb / 0.1 x 10-6 lb = 16 x 1012 That's an increase of 16 trillion times! Photo Sources: Redwood Cone (wc.convio.net); Rewood Seeds (dearplants.com); Hyperion Redwood (inhabitat.com); Coast Redwoods (wikimedia.org) The Sperm said "I weigh much less— yet I grow as tall as Yao Ming and as big as Haystack Calhoun. Sperm Yao Ming (7'6") Haystack Calhoun (663 lbs) Sperm cell head is 5 x 3 μm with a tail 50 μm long. Cell weighs 3.5 x 10-9 gm. Another source: Cell weighs 27 picograms (10-12 gm), Basketball player Yao Ming is 7 feet 6 inches tall. He played for the NBA Houston Rockets (2002-2011). Haystack Calhoun was a professional wrestler (from 1960-1973) who was 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighed 663 lbs. Yao Ming is 2.286 meters tall; Sperm head is μm— increase of 2 million times. Haystack weighs 663 lbs = 3 x 105 gm; Cell weights 3.5 x10-9 gm— increase 100 trillion times. Quite a surprise— it beats the Redwood Seed by 6.25 times! Photo Sources: Sperm (thestar.com); Yao Ming (basketball.fandom.com); Haystack Calhoun (thisisinsider.com) The Hydrogen atom chuckled— "I make up the Sun whose warmth and light endow you all with life." Hydrogen Atom Sun (2x1030 kg) Sun in the Sky The Hydrogen Atom is much smaller than the Acorn, Redwood Seed, and the Sperm Cell. Atom's diameter is 0.5 nanometer or 5 x 10-10 m. So it's 10,000 times smaller than the Sperm. The Sun is 73.5% Hydrogen and 24.8% Helium. Without the Sun's warmth and photosynthesis, none of the plants or trees can grow. That's why Hydrogen atom had a hearty laugh. Photo Sources: Hydrogen Atom (epsnews.eu); Sun (wikimedia.org); Sun in the Sky (abc.net.au) The proton weighs 1.67 x 10-27 kg, the Sun 2x1030 kg— jump of an octodecillion (1057) times. Proton (1.67 x 10-27 kg) Eclipse of the Sun (2x1030 kg) Since Hydrogen consists of a single proton (1.67 x 10-27 kg) and electron (9.1 x 10-31 kg), and the Sun weighs 2x1030 kg— we have a weight jump of an octodecillion (1057) times. Photo Sources: Proton (quora.com); Eclipse of Sun (theguardian.com) The Black Hole was last to speak— From a Point of no dimension or weight— this universe was born. Black Hole Messier 87 (4-10-2019) Point No Dimension or Weight Universe Born 13.8 billion years ago Black Hole is a region of spacetime exhibiting such strong gravitational effects that nothing— not even particles and electromagnetic radiation such as light— can escape from inside it. Just two weeks ago (April 10, 2019), the supermassive black hole at the core of supergiant elliptical galaxy Messier 87, with a mass 7 billion times the Sun's, as depicted in the first image was released by the Event Horizon Telescope. According to the Big Bang Theory, this Universe was born from a singularity, a point, defined by Euclid as having no dimension. Sources: Black Hole Messier 87 (wikimedia.org); Single Point (tes.com); Birth of Universe (interestingengineering.com); Universe weighs most of all (1053 kg), that's infinite miraculous growth— from nothing emerged everything. Weight of Universe by David Burgett (2012) WMAP of Universe (1.5x1053 kg) taken by NASA (2010) Zero to Infinity London Music Band According to Quora, the mass of the Universe is 1.5x1053 kg. Since the Universe contains all the galaxies and the atoms in it, it's the heaviest object of them all. Universe Weight / Weight of Point = 1053 kg / 0 kg = Infinite! From nothing emerged everything— most miraculous growth of all! Photo Sources: Weight of the Universe (glassdoor.co.in); WMAP of Universe (nasa.gov); Zero to Infinity (/soundcloud.com) — Peter Y. Chou     Mountain View, 4-25-2019 | Top | Most Miraculous Growth | Poems 2019 | Poems 2018 | Poems 2017 | Poems 2016 | Poems 2015 | | Poems 2014 | Poems 2013 | Poems 2012 | Poems 2011 | Haikus 2019 | Haikus 2018 | Haikus 2017 | Haikus 2016 | | Haikus 2015 | Haikus 2014 | Haikus 2013 | Haikus 2012 | News | CPITS | Books | A-Z Portals | Home | © Peter Y. Chou, Wisdom Portal P.O. Box 390707, Mountain View, CA 94039 email: (4-25-2019)