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Shrink Earth to a billiard ball and it feels smooth

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Mount Everest seems massive when you're freezing to death on it, but it’s mathematically insignificant. The tolerance for a billiard ball allows for minor bumps and pits. If you shrank the Earth down to 2.25 inches in diameter, the highest mountains and deepest oceanic trenches would be completely imperceptible to the human touch. Our jagged, chaotic planet is statistically just a polished marble.

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