10 million light years to 100 attometers
Leslie
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I received this email the other day and it's truly cool stuff:
Florida State University has put up a very interesting Java applet on their website. It begins as a view of the Milky Way Galaxy viewed
from a distance of 10 million light years and then zooms in towards Earth in powers of ten of distance -10 million, to one million, to 100,000 light years, etc., until it finally reaches a large oak tree leaf. It zooms into the leaf until it reaches to the level of the quarks viewed at 100 attometers. Whew!
Click Below:
[url]http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index[/url].
Florida State University has put up a very interesting Java applet on their website. It begins as a view of the Milky Way Galaxy viewed
from a distance of 10 million light years and then zooms in towards Earth in powers of ten of distance -10 million, to one million, to 100,000 light years, etc., until it finally reaches a large oak tree leaf. It zooms into the leaf until it reaches to the level of the quarks viewed at 100 attometers. Whew!
Click Below:
[url]http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index[/url].
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PS - Shadowfax, my brother-in-law sent it to me. He works at Boening and always comes up with this kind of stuff.
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