Secret Worlds: The Universe Within

There, if that is not educational, I don’t know what is

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.

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6 Comments

  1. Jax
    Posted Fri May 27 2005 at 9:47 | Permalink

    That is fabulous.

  2. Chris
    Posted Fri May 27 2005 at 9:48 | Permalink

    I think I have linked to that before or a version of it. It’s based on a rather old book which, of course, the Tooth household bought many many years ago!! Can’t remember what that’s called, though I guess Alison will.

  3. Chris
    Posted Fri May 27 2005 at 9:49 | Permalink

    Duh, it’s mentioned on that page….’Powers of Ten’.

  4. Chris
    Posted Fri May 27 2005 at 9:53 | Permalink

    http://www.powersof10.com/

  5. Tim
    Posted Fri May 27 2005 at 10:12 | Permalink

    I have seen this before (or something very similar) too, somewhere else. This Java version works quite nicely though.

  6. Merry
    Posted Fri May 27 2005 at 14:59 | Permalink

    Cor, that’s luvley that is.