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.

[balrog666]

Ping list ping.

[January24th]

Proving yet again that science is cool!

Thanks!

[Samwise]

You are correct. That was really cool. Thank you for the link. I have sent it on to several other people who I am sure will enjoy it.

[AndrewC]

The site also has techniques for enhancing the Mattel QX3 Microscope. Yes, its a toy, but an amazing toy. I won't say what I would have given up for it as a kid.

[krb]

That's cheesey! It stops at examining quarks! I know that we can do better than that! :-)

[facedown]

Very cool!

[Marobe]

That sounds like one I saw in Dc at the Air & Space Museum.
Excellent !

[2timothy3.16]

And to think, God did all this and more in six days and never even broke into a sweat.

Man, this makes you want to get on your knees and praise, glorify and worship He who bleed for us.

[agrace]

Excellent post, passing link along.

[winodog]

bump to show my son

[Tribune7]

bump

[Doctor Stochastic]

One needs the names of the scale factors.

[Happygal]

Really neat, bump ;-)

[Hatteras]

That means our whole solar system could be like one tiny atom in the finger nail of some other giant being... -Pinto, Animal House 1978

[grumpster-dumpster]

FANTASTIC!!

Reminds me how the smallest elements are vital to the big picture; and how I really need to rake the leaves this afternoon.

[windcliff]

ping

[onedoug]

How very Eamesish!

[fporretto]

A colleague of mine is an inveterate model builder. He brings his best work to the office and displays it around his desk. All the models are mounted on wooden bases with brass plaques affixed. The plaques all say such things as:

B-58A HUSTLER SUPERSONIC BOMBER
1:112 SCALE

He'll talk your ear off about any of those models, too, especially about the difficulty of rendering the details in the small scale he prefers. It can be interesting, for the first two or three hours.

So, one fine day I went to a model shop and had a little something made up for him. He came to work the next day to find an extra wooden base on his desk. It got his attention at once, for he knew he hadn't left it there.

There was no model on the base, but there was a brass plaque. He peered closely to read it, and saw:

SPIRAL GALAXY
1:1 SCALE

It's still on his desk.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[riley1992]

What an excellent site.

[WIladyconservative]

Be sure to visit the silicon zoo page. Great little art on microchips!