Scale of the Universe

If you were to zoom in, phase-out, move in
Focus on this human whose cells magnify
As you fly through them, and see
Atoms, looming
But you keep shooting past protons, bosons, quarks
'Til even a part of a particle's too big then

Boom, an end to the intrusion
As you hit the resolution of the universe
The strands of its fabric
The tiniest fragment, the Planck length
Past that, gravity becomes a fallacy
Try contrasting that with the galaxies
And to grasp the huge magnitude of the universe
It's unimaginable
But let's try anyway

If that insane length was one dollar bill
Then to reach the wavelength of the smallest particles
Quarks, that are so fundamental
They don't have an inherent size
Would be the current price you'd gain if you sold
Mount Everest made out of gold
That is insane

If you applied the Midas touch to my mind
It'd be quite enough to buy a car to drive
And the gluons and three quarks combined
Make a large hadron those guys collide a proton
And to magnify to that size
Would turn that Midas mountain into a diamond
My mind made of that could buy you an island

And next we ramp up
From quarks and protons to atoms
Atoms, the fractions of matter
The ones that grant us our mass, and
If that quark was counted every time you take a single breath
You'd respire Midas mountains then until your death, yeah

And if that life was compressed into one lock of hair
Then as we climb up the rest of these atomic stairs
Then we'd pass DNA when we get to my red streak and the size of our cells
We equate to every hair on my head, sing

Sometimes you make me feel so small
Can't comprehend your size
Yet, I'm a giant in your eyes

If we took my head of hair that a cell represents
Life times of Midas Everest breaths
And then you would stretch it out to the skyline
Again and again
You'd find circle round the earth ten times
Before you meet me and you right here
The reach of a human, a meter or two
And if we were to choose one song
To represent those horizons, an mp3 on our device
Then to reach the size of the Earth
Compared to like our size

That's a terabyte hard drive filled with our files
It seems immense
And if we compress that collection to one word
To represent our world, then scaling coefficients
From the planet to the solar system
Would let me re-read the whole of deathly hallows
Awesome

And then to travel between stars
As we take to the skies
Would be ten times every word
You'll ever say in your life
And as an analogy of the expanse of galaxies up in space
Ten times the total of every word
In every book ever made

And to move up to the scale of galaxy clusters
Would be every word said by everyone in Shanghai, in London
Berlin, Delhi, L.A., Mumbai, São Paulo and Moscow
Jakarta, Karachi, Dubai, Tel ford, Tokyo and Stockholm
And then to galaxy super clusters in the large-scale structure
With filaments that feel inadequately described as humungous
Since, if we stay with the scale of Earth as a word that equates
To all the words everyone alive today will ever say

And finally, we reach the biggest physical thing we can confirm
The indescribable size of the observable universe
Which would be more than every word that every person has ever said
Every word that was ever written, every word that was ever read

Sometimes you make me feel so small
Can't comprehend your size
Yet, I'm a giant in your eyes
I can't control the scope
But I'm not losing hope
No, no, no, no

To summarise
Every word that every person has ever said in their lives
Where each word implies enough mp3s to fill a terabyte hard drive
Where each song is ten times the number drives to the horizon
That it'd take to ride around the world each time you set eyes on one

Where each horizon is a head of hairs
And every hair there is the length of a lifetime
And each breath in that life is the price
Of Mount Everest made entirely by Midas
And that finally describes it, oh, and it's increasing in size
So each time you listen to this song again
It'll be even more difficult to comprehend