JoeyRamone 0 #1 February 8, 2004 http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chuteless 1 #2 February 8, 2004 Isnt God's creation wonderful. WOW !!!! Bill Cole D-41 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,027 #3 February 8, 2004 The Planck volume is around 10^-99 cubic centimeters. That is believed to be the smallest non-zero volume that can exist. There are more Planck volumes in 1.0cc than there are cc's in the known universe!... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumpinjackflash 0 #4 February 8, 2004 Massively cool. jIt's a gas, gas, gas... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyIvan 0 #5 February 8, 2004 Wow!!!, this is cool!!!__________________________________________ Blue Skies and May the Force be with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeyRamone 0 #6 February 8, 2004 Can not read them all...Still very cool.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vertifly 0 #7 February 8, 2004 If you think that this is cool, Go to the Metro Museum of Natural History and visit the room where the planetarium is. It is all about comparing the size of the universe - all the way down to - a proton. UNBELIEVABLE - and the movie isn't that bad either. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
retreved 0 #8 February 8, 2004 Whenever life get you down, Mrs. Brown, And things seem hard or tough. And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft, And you feel that you've had quite enu-hu-hu-huuuuff! Just - re-member that you're standing on a planet that's evolving and revolving at 900 miles an hour, It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned, the sun that is the source of all our power. The Sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see, are moving at a million miles a day, In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour, of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way. Our Galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars, it's 100,000 light-years side-to-side, It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick, but out by us it's just 3000 light-years wide. We're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point, we go round every 200 million years, And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe. The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, in all of the directions it can whizz, As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know, twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth, And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, because there's bugger all down here on Earth. "The Galaxy Song" - Monty Python Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fudd 0 #9 February 8, 2004 hmm...resembles a little the total perspective vortex. There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest #10 February 8, 2004 Quotehttp://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html 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. Jah, I remember seeing the original "Powers of Ten" movie. Starts out with a kid rowing a boat on a lake, and zooms out at 10x increments, then zips back and goes to 1x10^-1 and on down thru the kid's DNA to the individual atoms. Makes ya feel kinda insignificant... mh"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bobsled92 0 #11 February 8, 2004 THE GALAXY SONG makes me feel the circulation of my body feel like I'm doing an"Invisible Man" skysurf move. blinding spin like I'm in a centrifuge.....barf! (I can't move my ARMS!....oh crap pull time!)_______________________________ If I could be a Super Hero, I chose to be: "GRANT-A-CLAUS". and work 365 days a Year. http://www.hangout.no/speednews/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkydivingNurse 0 #12 February 8, 2004 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html Hey, I was in the Total Perspective Vortex, it told me I was a pretty froody guy Oh yeah, the link above will let you watch Brian Green's The Elegant Universe. I'd recommend that everyone see it at least once, just to realize how screwy this awesome universe we live in can be. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bobsled92 0 #13 February 8, 2004 Nice link! THese are the things my daughter likes to discuss with me. I look forward to sendind this site to her too. Thanks, Grant, Maytown DZ Lancaster Co.,PA_______________________________ If I could be a Super Hero, I chose to be: "GRANT-A-CLAUS". and work 365 days a Year. http://www.hangout.no/speednews/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
