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If you can find a tumor when it's less than a centimeter, survival exceeds 90 percent, but drops off rapidly as tumor size increases.
In every little cubic centimeter of space, whether or not there's stuff, whether or not there's particles, matter, radiation or whatever, there's still energy, even in the space itself.
The amount of energy in each cubic centimeter remains the same, even as the universe gets bigger and bigger.
For some time now, it's been known that if you pay attention to the carrier phase of the GPS signal, and if you have an Internet connection, then you can go from meter level to centimeter level, even millimeter-level positioning.
Compare that with the device released just months ago that's now packaged into something the size of a key fob, and if you take a look at the state of the art for a complete GPS receiver, which is only a centimeter on a side and more sensitive than ever, you realize that the GPS dot will soon move from fiction to nonfiction.
So when you look at this bee, it's about this size here, it's about a centimeter.
Slime mold grows at about one centimeter an hour, so it's not really ideal for live viewing unless there's some form of really extreme meditation, but through the time lapse, I could observe some really interesting behaviors.
So this is about a centimeter cubed, a centimeter on a side, so very tiny, and we've gotten this to run about 10 body lengths per second, so 10 centimeters per second.
Now do a simple calculation: if the velocity of Rosetta is off by one centimeter per second, seven hours is 25,000 seconds.
So we had to know the velocity of Rosetta much better than one centimeter per second, and its location in space better than 100 meters at 500 million kilometers from Earth.
That's one ten-thousandth of a centimeter, which spans somewhere between a hundredth and a thousandth of a pixel in this image.
To qualify these ideas, let's say you have a paper that's one-thousandth of a centimeter in thickness.
After we have folded the paper once, it is now two thousandths of a centimeter in thickness.
If we fold it in half once again, the paper will become four thousandths of a centimeter.
Two to the power of 10, meaning that you multiply two by itself 10 times, is one thousand and 24 thousandths of a centimeter, which is a little bit over one centimeter.
Oh, and a cubic centimeter of it will weigh six grams.
A cubic centimeter of it weighs 5.9 grams.
The first is anagen, the growth phase, which up to 90% of your hair follicles are experiencing right now, causing them to push up hair at a rate of one centimeter per month.
This 24x16 centimeter book is called the Voynich manuscript, and its one of history's biggest unsolved mysteries.
So 25 years ago, environmental writer Bill McKibben said that because nature was a thing apart from man and because climate change meant that every centimeter of the Earth was altered by man, then nature was over.
And yours very truly found a species of flea that was dug inside my heel in my foot one centimeter deep.
Even a cancer as small as one centimeter in diameter harbors over a hundred million different cells.
Bangkok is sinking more than one centimeter per year, which is four times faster than the rate of predicted sea level rise.
But despite these sophisticated systems, every centimeter is a fight against gravity.
So each of the piles of objects go right up to one centimeter to the tip of that pendulum.
And this is the 16 centimeter area.
Six centimeter of rainfall, and they can telephone you that if you find any water problem in your city, Delhi, Bombay, Bangalore, Mysore, please come to our area of six centimeters, we can give you water.
The maximum efficient distance for regeneration is only about one centimeter.
So, we can use these smart biomaterials but only for about one centimeter to bridge those gaps.
What do we do when we have injuries for structures which are much larger than one centimeter?