Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Our World
The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida has put up a very
interesting Java applet on their site. It begins as a view of the Milky
Way Galaxy viewed from a distance of 10 million light years and then
zooms into towards Earth in powers of ten of distance. 10 million, to one
million, to
100,000 light years and so on and then when it finally reaches a large
Oak tree leaf. But that is not all it zooms into the leaf until it
reaches to the level of the quarks viewed at 100 attometers.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
This is a fantastic representation of how magnificent the Universe is
and how vastly infinite it is both in the macroscopic and the
microscopic level.
The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida has put up a very
interesting Java applet on their site. It begins as a view of the Milky
Way Galaxy viewed from a distance of 10 million light years and then
zooms into towards Earth in powers of ten of distance. 10 million, to one
million, to
100,000 light years and so on and then when it finally reaches a large
Oak tree leaf. But that is not all it zooms into the leaf until it
reaches to the level of the quarks viewed at 100 attometers.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
This is a fantastic representation of how magnificent the Universe is
and how vastly infinite it is both in the macroscopic and the
microscopic level.
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