Posted by thistle on October 27, 2002 at 07:49:41:
In Reply to: Powers of 10 posted by jonvon on October 24, 2002 at 08:17:39:
It is amazing to see all of the beautiful patterns as you progress fom the Milky Way to the atoms of the leaf. I agree with Jeannie about the outer, at times, looking a lot like the inner.
: thought this was kind cool, from big view of milky way to face to face with quarks inside an oak tree leaf. hehe.
: from the site:
: 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.