Life, the Universe and Everything

[KevStar]

This just about says it all. Litterally!

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

KevStar

[Jamie]

Yup....

[Ant]

Saw this a few weeks ago.

Quite happy to sit and watch it all again!

Make you feel really small and large at the same time!

Ant

[ianmwatson]

The dimensions are staggering aren't they? Contrast this with time, it has taken the planet earth 4.6 billion years to have a consious understanding of its place in the cosmos, as far as we know anyway.

[GordonCopestake]

I never get tired of seeing the powers of 10 video and it crops up quite often

[Jamie]

I never get tired of seeing the powers of 10 video and it crops up quite often

A humbling experience evey time....

[Whippy]

Blimey....

You know that bit right at the end of Men In Black with the 'thing' playing with the marbles?.....That's it. Right there.

[dazza1639]

Amazing, Just reminds you how insignificant we all are in the grand scheme of things.

Darren

[mpeniak]

Very impressive

[Vega]

A great explanation and brilliant example.

Even more intriguing is that even after all of these wonderful discoveries, we still don't fully understand the two extremes of the life cycle. (The Subatomic level of physics at one end and the universe at the other). We may never fully understand it. (Then me thinks....Do we really need to ?).

[lunator]

Power of 10 animations are always good to watch

Give you a sense of you place in the universe (somewhere in the middle sizewise )