Monday, November 21, 2016

A video illustrating the length scales of the universe

Sometimes when I speak about science to church groups I show the old (1977) video Powers of Ten which nicely illustrates the immense scale of the universe and orders of magnitude.
I often wished there was a more polished modern version.
Yesterday it was pointed out to me there is, Cosmic Eye.



The phone app can be purchased here for $1.

3 comments:

  1. This video is very amazing. You made me remember this page that I found a couple of years ago http://scaleofuniverse.com/
    It goes until the Planck length!

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  2. What do you tell the church?

    Are u old earth or young?

    Old I hope!

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