Social distancing between particles and objects in the Universe

TL;DR

This paper explores the concept of 'social' distances between particles and objects in the universe, analyzing various scales from microscopic to cosmic to understand their separations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel analysis of internal distances within diverse objects in the universe, spanning from microscopic particles to astronomical entities.

Findings

Mass/'social' distance plot illustrating separation scales

Comparison of distances across different object types

Insight into the structure of matter and cosmic objects

Abstract

The novel coronavirus, dubbed COVID-19, upended our lives may be in irreversible ways during its initial spread throughout the world in March 2020. It forced us all, willingly or unwillingly, to keep social distance from each other to slow down the spread of COVID-19. As scientists, we started speculating what kind of separation is between the constitutes of different objects in the Universe. In this work, we study the "social" distance between elements inside various objects, no matter their size, mass, and nature. We consider things ranging from diamond, baseball to Saturn, asteroid belt or M87 Black Hole, to name a few. We show our results in the form of a fascinating mass/"social" distance plot, where a cool cartoon figure represents each object.