Since things are slow, I think you'll like this. Certainly
gives you a perspective of the scale of things!
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth.
Then move 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, 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.
[Will take a while to load as each image is retrieved, but once
loaded you can zoom in and out at will. Be sure and look at the
title on top of each image and the scale as it moves from
10 to the 23rd meters to 10 to the minus 16th meters]
/Ed
That was pretty cool,
Thanks Ed
David
