QQC #2

"So if Pluto really is a planet, it is certainly an odd one. It is very tiny: just one-quarter of 1 percent as massive as Earth. If you set it down on top of the United States, it would cover not quite half the lower forty-eight states."

Ever since I was in Elementary School I have been fascinated with out solar system. I used to write page long essays about each planet on my own time and share them with my family. But I never knew that Pluto was actually that small. Through my research I learned that it was a small planet but not so small that it wouldn't even cover the United States. It messes with your brain a little bit. When you think of a planet you'd usually think of this massive ball that is extremely far away but when you learn that Pluto could fit within Earth, it kind of catches you off guard.

Question: Are there other living beings in the universe? With the universe being so big there has to be.

QQC #1

"No matter how hard you try you will never be able to grasp just how tiny, how spatially unassuming, is a proton."

It amazes me that even though protons are so extremely small, so small that on this dot of this "i" there could be around 500,000,000,000 of them, but we still know that they exist. It has always been hard for me to believe something exists without being able to see it with my own eyes but I guess that I just have to believe that they are real. I, personally, wouldn't want to take the time and try to actually see a proton. It seems so crazy that there is so much to ourselves and our world that we have never seen before or even completely understand but we live each day as if it's not there.

How did someone first discover the proton?