[TheForge] Powers of 10 - YAK

Sat Feb 7 16:58:00 2004

Neat way to look at this.  Thanks Mike, I sent it to all of my kids (they
are not kids except to me.)

Dave Smucker
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Linn" <[email protected]>
To: "Theforge" <[email protected]>; "Artmetal"
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Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:23 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Powers of 10 - YAK

>
>  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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