Physics Moment: how many zoom levels does the Universe require?

I made a quick table of reference lengths in meters to figure out if I ever made a data visualization tool for the entire universe, how many zoom levels would it have to support? One zoom level is one power of ten.

reference length	power
is there anything meaningful that's smaller than planck length?
planck length	1.62E-35	meters
nanometer	1.00E-09
meter	1.00E+00
kilometer	1.00E+03
light year	9.46E+15	meter
diameter of known universe	4.40E+26


So the total zoom levels of the Entire Universe are:	61.00	61 zoom levels is way more than Farmville or Warcraft

So 61 zoom levels.

How do these zoom levels compare to the Big Data Explosion.

reference quantity of data		bytes
bit		1.25E-01	1 or 0 and that's it.
byte		1.00E+00	base unit for most data types in programming languages
kb		1.00E+03	Starting number for web optimized images and javascript libraries
mb		1.00E+06	Starting number for a song
gigabytes	GB	1.00E+09	This is base unit of $10 USB sticks
terabytes	TB	1.00E+12	This is where external hard drives start (2015)
petabyte		1.00E+15	This is where "Big Data" starts
exabyte	EB	1.00E+18
All data stored at Google	10 to 15 exabytes	1.5E+19

So to describe all data quantities that humans care about circa 2017 it's only:		20	zoom levels

Wow, we only need 20 zoom levels for all the data that humans care about circa 2017, 40 fewer zoom levels than building a map of the universe.

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