On average, the human head has about 100,000 strands of hair (10-to-plus05). How wide is each one?
We can consider the power 10-04 from various perspectives. This power is:
- The width of a single human hair (100 micrometers or 10-04 meters)
- The energy of a cricket’s chirp (9 x 10-04 Joules)
- The amount of caffeine in your average cup of coffee (1.5 x 10-04 kg)
- The speed of Jakobshavn Isbræ, one of the fastest moving glaciers from 1997-2003 (8.9 x 10-04 mph), and
- The diameter of Thiomargarita namibiensis, the widest known bacterium (10-04 meters)