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ThinkInsane · Jun 10, 2005, 01:03 PM

Secret Worlds: The Universe Within

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.

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/j...f10/index.html

Enjoy!

f1000 · Jun 10, 2005, 01:11 PM

Neat! Reminds me of the Powers of Ten book.

starman · Jun 10, 2005, 01:17 PM

A film similar to this played at the Air and Space Museum when I was 8 years old. I was hoping that's what this was. Still cool.

Mike

olePigeon · Jun 10, 2005, 01:17 PM

That was fun. I thought the Quark part in particular was a little strange, but charming.

ironknee · Jun 10, 2005, 01:21 PM

Originally Posted by f1000

Neat! Reminds me of the Powers of Ten book.

i was just going to say wasn't there a power of 10 movie?

f1000 · Jun 10, 2005, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by ironknee

i was just going to say wasn't there a power of 10 movie?

Yes, there was. I caught it on PBS once, but I don't know if it came before or after the book.

f1000 · Jun 10, 2005, 01:29 PM

Originally Posted by olePigeon

That was fun. I thought the Quark part in particular was a little strange, but charming.

You crack me up, but I'm down with that.

budster101 · Jun 10, 2005, 01:59 PM

That should be in the "Best way to waste time" thread.

Really though, that was cool. Thanks.

osxisfun · Jun 10, 2005, 02:04 PM

neat!

thanks.

GSixZero · Jun 10, 2005, 02:38 PM

That's pretty cool. The pictures of the really small things irks the physicist inside of me, cause you can't really look at stuff that small, but I enjoyed it.

Albert Pujols · Jun 10, 2005, 02:48 PM

Great stuff, I love science.

ReggieX · Jun 10, 2005, 02:55 PM

Originally Posted by f1000

You crack me up, but I'm down with that.

Damn, beaten top to bottom on this one...

brapper · Jun 10, 2005, 03:19 PM

neato!

ghporter · Jun 10, 2005, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by olePigeon

That was fun. I thought the Quark part in particular was a little strange, but charming.

That's one way to put a beautiful and truthful spin on the subject.

The National Film Board of Canada (I love saying that!) made a film called "Cosmic Zoom" that starts out with a boy in a boat on a lake, and zooms OUT to the outer cosmos, then zooms back in to the mosquito on the boy's hand and into the subatomic realm. Brilliant film! This was great, Think, thanks a lot.

SimpleLife · Jun 11, 2005, 07:01 AM

That was cool.

There are several books out there that was to picture the micro-world. They are fascinating!

This one is great!

Here are a few picts and animations.

scaught · Jun 11, 2005, 10:10 AM

i kind of came out of watching that thinking "mommy, hold me".

tavilach · Jun 12, 2005, 03:03 AM

Yo Mamma so weak, I threw a quark at her, and she was like, "Ouch, that hurt, yo."
Yo Mamma so stupid, I threw a quark at her, and she was like, "Where's the wine bottle, yo?"
Yo Mamma so fat, I threw a quark at her, and she was like, "I already got plenty of those in my belly, yo!"
Yo Mamma so poor, I threw a quark at her, and she was like, "Robin Hood!"
Yo Mamma so snobby, I threw a quark at her, and she was like like, "Is it a Gucci quark, yo?"
Yo Mamma so nerdy, I threw a quark at her, and she was like, "You can't be throwin' quarks, yo."
Yo Mamma so insanely nerdy, I threw a quark at her, and she was like, "We gots to find it a CEO, yo!"
Yo Mamma so rude, I threw a quark at her, and she was like, "Don't be throwin' your f*cking quarks at me, you little piece of sh*t motherf*cker!"
Yo Mamma so Jewish, I threw a quark at her, and she was like "Oy, you need to eat the quark! Eat, eat!"
Yo Mamma so American, I threw a quark at her, and she was like, "O' say, can you see the quark?"
Yo Mamma so...

I really don't know. So don't ask.

Very cool, though

.

brapper · Jun 12, 2005, 03:09 AM

Originally Posted by tavilach

Yo Mamma so weak, I threw a quark at her, and she was like, "Ouch, that hurt, yo."
Yo Mamma so stupid, I threw a quark at her, and she was like, "Where's the wine bottle, yo?"
Yo Mamma so fat, I threw a quark at her, and she was like, "I already got plenty of those in my belly, yo!"
Yo Mamma so poor, I threw a quark at her, and she was like, "Robin Hood!"
Yo Mamma so snobby, I threw a quark at her, and she was like like, "Is it a Gucci quark, yo?"
Yo Mamma so nerdy, I threw a quark at her, and she was like, "You can't be throwin' quarks, yo."
Yo Mamma so insanely nerdy, I threw a quark at her, and she was like, "We gots to find it a CEO, yo!"
Yo Mamma so rude, I threw a quark at her, and she was like, "Don't be throwin' your f*cking quarks at me, you little piece of sh*t motherf*cker!"
Yo Mamma so Jewish, I threw a quark at her, and she was like "Oy, you need to eat the quark! Eat, eat!"
Yo Mamma so American, I threw a quark at her, and she was like, "O' say, can you see the quark?"
Yo Mamma so...

I really don't know. So don't ask.

Very cool, though

.

unless I'm mistaken,

tavilach · Jun 12, 2005, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by brapper

unless I'm mistaken,

You're right on the ball

.

wdlove · Jun 12, 2005, 05:56 PM

Very nice, it was science at its best.

Eriamjh · Jun 13, 2005, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by f1000

Neat! Reminds me of the Powers of Ten book.

Funny you should say that.

The original concept underlying this tutorial was advanced by Dutch engineer and educator Kees Boeke, who first utilized powers to aid in visualization of large numbers in a 1957 publication entitled "Cosmic View, the Universe in 40 Jumps". Several years later, in 1968, architect Charles Eames, along with his wife Ray, directed a "rough sketch" film of the same concept and finally completed the work (entitled the "Powers of Ten") with the assistance of Philip Morrison in 1977. Other notable contributors to this effort include Philip's wife Phylis, who has assisted in translation of the concept into several beautifully illustrated books that are currently still available through the booksellers.