An interesting, interactive flash file. It takes you from Light Year all the way down to the small Femtometer, and along the way, gives you examples while explaining the examples in more detail when you click on them. I learned a lot of new things from this, like the existence of circuitry that are only nanometers big. I didn’t even know they could make circuitry that small.
It looks cool – but seems to take a long time to load, even on broadband. Should be worth the wait, though!
Can it scale any faster? Interesting, nonetheless.
Oh, you can use your scrolling wheel on your mouse to zoom in/out on the scale faster if you like.
Wow…that took a while. Is it all to scale? Is a chromosome really about the size of a red blood cell?
The mouse at work has no scroll wheel.
AFAIK it should be to scale more or less, but since I don’t know much about the size of chromosomes, I don’t really know.
Though wouldn’t be surprised if a little leeway should be given.
Long time to load? For me it was just… there. No load
edit: I hate when things show you too much… in other words while you’re trying to read some text you’re missing what’s going on elsewhere, or vice versa… so I’ll end up having to watch it twice or more.
edit 2: And you can’t pause it.
The first time I watched it, I was hurrying to read and comprehend everything, yeah. Though once I realized I could always go back and re-read stuff by scrolling forward or backward, it made things a lot easier.
The Hayden Planetarium has a great ‘scale’ display.
Time to complain to Telecom eh? It loaded on my computer in a few seconds.
Wow, really cool.
Nah, nothin’ wrong with Telecom, it’s the slowness of the whole thing (which is what I meant), once it had loaded (which was quite quick). I posted in a hurry, and got frustrated waiting between the edge of the known universe and Pluto.
Yay for the scroll wheel!!
That portion of the presentation was a little…err…slow…but I thought it captured very well the vastness of space. It really is a whole lot of nothing, isn’t it?
Also interesting was the lack of ‘stuff’ at the extreme other end of the scale. Once you get down past the atom, there is again a “whole lotta nothin’” until we finally get to the nucleus, neutron and proton.
When you think about it, everything really is almost *completely *nothing.
Ah. And then you discovered the scroll wheel.