Yep, the scale of things (distance, size) in POV-Ray is not infinite.
Others have brought this up before, one person in particular I can't
recollect since its been a year or more. But I tried my own scale
testing too and apparently the cone primitive is a very sturdy piece of
pov script. The sphere is one of the weakest, it changes size and
disappears altogether rather easily if scaled too large or small. The
box primitive tends to distort quite a bit before suffering the same
fate. This happens regardless of camera being scaled to view objects.
I could put my scale test file at the scene-files.text group if I can
locate it here.

Mark Radosevich wrote:
> 
> Strangely enough, I can confirm this... I started with a sphere at the origin,
> which I expanded appropriately as I moved it further out along the z-axis, and
> when numbers got into the millions, it disappeared. A box, slightly further
> out, remained visible...
> 
> -Mark R.

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