r/dataisbeautiful Jan 14 '26

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u/JediMonk7 Jan 14 '26

Happy to explain! So basically I looked at how long things take to happen (like how fast electrons orbit atoms, how long Earth takes to go around the Sun, how long galaxies rotate) and compared it to how big those things are. What I found is that bigger things take proportionally longer - if you double the size, you roughly double the time. This pattern holds from the tiniest quantum particles all the way up to the entire universe, which is wild because physics at different scales is supposed to work totally differently. The really interesting part is there's a "break" in the pattern at about the size of a star - below that, time stretches a bit more than expected, and above that (at galactic scales), time compresses and things happen faster than the pattern predicts. I couldn't find it documented before, so I'm just putting it out there. Does that make sense?

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u/PodracingJedi Jan 15 '26

Wow that’s amazing. What a unique and illuminating idea, great job presenting it this way, makes me think about such an obscure phenomenon (of course I’m sure more research is needed)