The Universe in Powers of Ten

Posted by yayo in Science & Tech, Video Clips on May 26, 2008 at 12:39 am


In this ’70s video clip by the office of Charles and Ray Eames for IBM, you can see the relative size of things in the universe. The clip starts with a view of a couple on a picnic, then the camera zooms out by a factor of ten farther. Every ten seconds, the view expands by a power of ten… Then it zooms back down, also in a power of ten, down to the quantum level …

This kind of video reminds me of The Galaxy Song by The Monty Pythons [Youtube].

Hit play or follow the link to the Youtube source to watch the short film: Link – via Nerdcore


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11 comments to "The Universe in Powers of Ten"

  1. Phos....
    May 26th, 2008 at 2:26 am

    Watch it soon, because I've seen this video posted to, and taken down by YouTube at least 5 or 6 times.

    It's dang good, and really ought to be released in the wild. Find a hi-res copy of it...if you can. It's worth it.

  2. yayo
    May 26th, 2008 at 2:28 am

    oks, thanks, I'll try bittorrent ^g^

    anyway the video is amazing ^^

    thanks

  3. DOJ
    May 26th, 2008 at 3:50 am

    can anyone make out the copyright date?

  4. yayo
    May 26th, 2008 at 3:57 am

    copyright won't go out of date until 75 years after authors dead in USA and CEE regions as long as they renew it ^g^ see What a wonderful life, it's free ^^

  5. Adam Stanhope
    May 26th, 2008 at 4:50 am

    Digg says that it's from 1977:

    http://digg.com/general_sciences/Powers_of_10_1977_science_documentary

    I enjoyed watching it.

  6. Christophe
    May 26th, 2008 at 5:54 am

    before 2003 anyway : we cannot the new Soldier field stadium.

  7. Camillo Miller
    May 26th, 2008 at 9:11 am

    Nice way to prepare for the Black Hole the Cern's Large Hadron Collider will generate in Geneve in a few weeks, when they'll start it up:-)

  8. Henry
    May 26th, 2008 at 10:32 am

    Wow, this is interesting. I just saw this video in science class last Friday. And the video was rather interesting, however the teacher made us write what we saw every ten seconds and we couldn't see the great video. I thank you for putting it up, I finally get to see it!

  9. your_mum_goes_to_college
    May 26th, 2008 at 11:28 am

    This video emphasises how ridiculous homeopathy is.
    40C is a fairly common level of dilution for a homeopathic remedy. Have a look at about 2:55 at 10 million, million meters. Take a portion of the active ingredient the size of a grain of rice and place it in a sphere of water the size of the entire solar system. That's actually more concentrated than 40C.
    The crazy thing is that homeopathy users believe that the more dilute the remedy, the more potent it is!
    Homeopathic remedies can reach dilutions of up to 1500C. To understand how dilute 1500C is (and I quote from a website: "CRUSH up a piece of rice. Take one GRANULE. Drop it in a sphere of water the size of the solar system... repeat that 2 million times."
    1500C must be powerful stuff!

  10. yayo
    May 27th, 2008 at 2:11 am

    Please, read this

    http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html

    before you think of DooM and Cern being the same word.

    And as you can see, you yanks created a black hole in a lab

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/0318_050318_pin_blackh ole.html

    Nobody died and, of course, NOBODY KNEW!

  11. znitch
    May 27th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

    Mr. Munroe's take on Powers of Ten:

    http://xkcd.com/271/

    Always hilarious.


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