[TheForge] Powers of 10 - YAK

[Mike Linn]

 Florida State University, Tallahassee, 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 in towards Earth in
powers of ten. 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. This is a fantastic representation of how magnificent the
Universe is and how vastly infinite it is:


http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html


Pretty cool




         Mike Linn
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