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Friday, October 8, 2010

An Adventure in Magnitudes ~ The Power of Ten

I’d been thinking lately about the enormity of our universe, especially the concept that our universe is only one of many. Today I learned about this 10-minute film called “The Power of Ten.” Called an adventure in magnitudes, it begins on a picnic blanket near Chicago’s shore of Lake Michigan, then takes us to the farthest realm of our universe, moving 10 times farther out every 10 seconds. Then, in an interesting turnabout, it moves inward, back to the picnic blanket and into the atomic structure of a cell in the man’s hand.

As the Hermetic adage goes … “As above, so below.”

2 comments:

christopher said...

I have seen this or something like it before. What strikes me about this is that we seem to be in the middle of things. I wonder if it is required that life takes place in the "womb" as it were.

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I wonder if this apparent middle position in the scale of things is an artifact of our vision and it would seem that way no matter where we were placed, that there is a limit on our ability to fathom what is above and below that is related to our position.

Anonymous said...

We made a new homage to Powers of Ten at IBM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyvmA4mI8zU