Categories: Comparisons
An example of an everyday comparison used to explain a more abstract idea:
"One hydrogen bomb would be sufficient to wipe out the whole of London. But compared with a supernova a hydrogen bomb is the merest trifle. For a supernova is equal in violence to about a million million million million hydrogen bombs all going off at the same time."
Fred Hoyle (1960) The Nature of the Universe (Revised ed.)
Whilst, thankfully, a hydrogen bomb is not an everyday phenomenon, Hoyle uses a well-known city to offer a scale for thinking about a supernova explosion.
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