Powers of Ten (really cool)

National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida ^ | Unknown | Matthew Parry-Hill, Christopher A. Burdett and Michael W. Davidson

[BillCompton]

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

[BillCompton]

This is really cool.

[Bahbah]

Wow.

[SkyPilot]

Very interesting.

I saw something similar in an IMAX theater. It compared the universe from a large scale vantage point and then examined all things at the microscopic level. Both are incredible to behold.

And despite these vast difference of scale, distance, and mass--God loves each of us and cares about each us as individuals to a degree we cannot even fathom.

[conservativemusician]

Very cool!

[Eaker]

Really is cool!!

Eaker

[sphinx]

Nice find.

[RightOnline]

VERY cool...........excellent post.

[egarvue]

Bump for showing all my friends later. Great post!!!

[tang-soo]

Yep I saw that too several years ago. If I remember correctly, they started with a hoola hoop with a diameter of 1.0 meter in a courtyard somewhere in Italy. It was cool and left a lasting impression. A suprisingly small number of jumps before emcompassing the entire known universe.

[FreedomPoster]

Index bump to check from home, later.

[SkyPilot]

tang-soo,

Yep I saw that too several years ago. If I remember correctly, they started with a hoola hoop with a diameter of 1.0 meter in a courtyard somewhere in Italy.

Yup--that's the one. Great IMAX show. You're correct--it was in Italy--Venice. With IMAX screens, you almost felt like you could reach out across the courtyard and touch the birds feeding in front of you.

What was amazing about that comparison was that it showed that there is a power at a macro-level in the cosmos that works at a very similar fashion to the micro-micro level of electron orbits and even below that.

Reminded me of a biblical passage about God holding all things together...it escapes me now.

[BillCompton]

Go to the frame that has 10^8 power or 100,000 kilometers.

This is the distance that light travels in 1/3 of a second.

[6ppc]

bump for a later look

[Judith Anne]

Bill! It's lovely....Thank you.

[MWS]

Bump!

This was very neat!

[tang-soo]

I'll try to find the passage. It also speaks to Einstein's Grand unification theory.

[July 4th]

Thanks! This mirrors a movie I saw maybe 10 years ago. I think it was produced by IBM, but it did the same thing centered over a person sitting on the beach in Chicago.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

I feel like Alice in wonderland in reverse.

First extremely small, then really big.

Although looking at the earth among the stars and galaxies makes it hard to believe that we are alone. But it is also hard to believe that we would ever find anyone out there given the distance.

[Camachee]

Ping!

:)