The scale of the Universe

[RocketFoot]

This is just awesome!

http://htwins.net/scale2/

 

[sm3570]

Wow, that's kind of cool. That Japanese Spider Crab is crazy.

 

[RocketFoot]

Yeah, nothing earth shattering...but I was impressed with the function of the webpage LOL!

 

[OLE PONY]

That is pretty cool. I've always like the comparison the earth is just a spec of dust compared to the universe. This kind of confirms it.

 

[Tnfastbk]

Looks like something from the Big Bang Theory

 

[hyena429]

Very cool...Im sure it took alot of work to put that flash together like that!!

 

[73vertproject]

That's incredibly cool! Wish I'd had access to something like that when I was still teaching science.

 

[marks73]

Very humbling! And very cool!

 

[Shipwright]

Very awe inspiring.

 

[goodnigh]

It is awe inspiring.

Have this book from Scientific American bought many years ago titled Powers of Ten.

It takes you on a visual tour of what things look like every time you increase or decrease

the magnification by 10. You start from a picture of a person on a blanket in a park next

to Soldiers' field in Chicago measured at one meter square. You move out until you reach

what things would look like of the person at 1 billion light years in steps of 10 times. You

then move in with steps of ten until you reach 0.1 Fermi (that is quite small). This book was

published in 1982 and 1 billion light years is child's play for Hubble or Chandra and the same

is true in the other direction. What has always intrigued me, we seem to live right smack

dab in the middle. Why is that?

mike

 

[Tnfastbk]

It is awe inspiring.

Have this book from Scientific American bought many years ago titled Powers of Ten.

It takes you on a visual tour of what things look like every time you increase or decrease

the magnification by 10. You start from a picture of a person on a blanket in a park next

to Soldiers' field in Chicago measured at one meter square. You move out until you reach

what things would look like of the person at 1 billion light years in steps of 10 times. You

then move in with steps of ten until you reach 0.1 Fermi (that is quite small). This book was

published in 1982 and 1 billion light years is child's play for Hubble or Chandra and the same

is true in the other direction. What has always intrigued me, we seem to live right smack

dab in the middle. Why is that?

mike

 

[goodnigh]

That happened a long time ago

mike