Zoom from outer space into the sub-atomic world
This is pretty cool Florida State University has put up a very interesting Java applet on their web site. It protrays a view the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then moves 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, you 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. http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index. Jim --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes
If this is "Powers of Ten" by the Eames (sp?) brothers, or based on it, I recommend it highly. The full movie (only a few minutes long) makes semi-regular appearances on PBS. C. --- Jim Gibson <xajax99@yahoo.com> wrote: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus
Yes this is based on the Charles and Ray Eames' Powers of Ten...though the oak tree has replaced the couple on the grass having a picnic...I have the dvd by the way, purchased in hopes of using as filler at a SLAS meeting last year. db On Monday, January 5, 2004, at 09:32 PM, Chuck Hards wrote:
If this is "Powers of Ten" by the Eames (sp?) brothers, or based on it, I recommend it highly. The full movie (only a few minutes long) makes semi-regular appearances on PBS.
C.
--- Jim Gibson <xajax99@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/ index.
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