The Scale of the Universe
February 11th, 2011
Here’s a great z-axis zoom-through of the universe [link via Kris Lachowski] showing the vast range of scales from the sub-atomic level to the outer reaches of the known universe.
When I was a kid, I read an illustrated book from 1957 called The Universe in 40 Jumps that pulled a similar trick in a succession of 10x steps; a predecessor to films like Powers of Ten (and partial inspiration for The Right Number).
Looking at this latest effort to make the incomprehensible comprehensible, all I can think is that the universe has gotten A LOT bigger, since I was a lot smaller.
Have a great weekend…
…you tiny, insignificant specks.
Posted in Visual Communication
March 3, 2021
Wo! I saw this at newgrounds.com; a really beautiful flash “game”. I love all these kind of expressions of that bipolar HUGE/small essence of ours. There’s a chilean writer, Juan Emar, who makes the same thoughts about our relation with reality.
Thanks for the great links, Scott.
Oh, that is very nice. Perfect, in fact.
It’s a little offtopic, but have you heard about the RSA Animate project? This one is my favourite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U , but all of them are great. It’s especially useful for non-native english speakers.
That’d be a yes. ^__^