A Visual Comparison of Various Distances, from the fermi to the distance to the furthest known object in the universe. When, as a child, I saw Powers of Ten, which attempts to do the same thing, I seem to recall that one of the take-away lessons was that a person, on the one-meter scale, was about equally poised between the smallest and the largest. However, either I misremember or the universe has vastly expanded, because the distances here span 41 orders of magnitude, with us standing only 15 orders of magnitude away from the bottom.