Transcript Powers of Ten

A Tour of U
and the
Universe.
This is a trip at high speed,
jumping distances by factor of 10.
Starting with 100 equivalent to 1 meter
0
10
1 meter
Leaves,
in the
garden
at your
feet.
1
10
10 meters
Foliage.
2
10
100 meters
The forest and
buildings
3
10
1 km
Now it is
possible to jump
with a parachute
...
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10
10 km
The city.
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10
100 km
The county.
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10
1.000 km
The state.
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10
10.000 km
The hemisphere
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10
100.000 km
Our home.
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10
1 million km
Earth and the
Moon’s orbit.
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10
10 Million km
Part of the
Earth’s Orbit
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10
100 millon km
Orbits of:
Venus and
Earth...
12
10
1 billion km
Orbits of:
Mercury, Venus,
Earth, Mars and
Jupiter.
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10
10 billion km
Our Solar
System
14
10
100 Billion km
Beyond Our
Solar System
15
10
1 trillion km
Our Sun in the
middle of
thousands of
stars...
16
10
1 light-year
Our little Sun star
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10
10 light-years
Our Star is now
nothing in the
infinity....
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10
100 light-years
Only
surrounding
stars and
Nebulae...
19
10
1,000 light-years
Our neighborhood in the
Milky Way
Galaxy
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10
10,000 light-years
More of our Milky
Way Galaxy
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10
100,000 light-years
Edge of the
Milky Way
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10
1 million light-years
All of the Milky
Way and the
other galaxies
too...
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10
10 million lightyears
Galaxies
galore.
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24
10
100 million lightyears
Even more
galaxies.
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44
10
156 billion lightyears
Farthest
Map of the
known
Universe.
The same
laws are
ruling in all
bodies of
the
Universe.
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24
10
100 million lightyears
We’re reversing
now.
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10
10 million lightyears
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22
10
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10
2
10
In this trip
“upwards” we went
to the power of 25 of
10
1
10
Now we are going to
dig inside of the
matter in an inverse
trip...
0
10
Our starting point.
-1
10
10 Centímeters
Leaves.
-2
10
1 Centímeter
Structure
of the leaf.
-3
10
1 Millimeter
The cellular
structures start
showing...
-4
10
100 microns
Cells.
You can see
the union
between
them.
-5
10
10 microns
Just outside
the cell...
-6
10
1 micron
Nucleus of
the cell is
visible.
-7
10
1.000
Angstroms
The chromosomes.
-8
10
100 Angstroms
DNA
chain.
-9
10
10 Angstroms
...the chromosome
blocks
-10
10
1 Angstrom
The carbon atoms
that form our world.
-11
10
10 picometers
Here we can
observe the
electrons
orbiting the
atoms.
-12
10
1 Picometer
Immense empty space
between the nucleus and
the electron orbits...
-13
10
100 Femtometers
The nucleus of the atom.
-14
10
10 Fentometers
Nucleus of the
carbon atom
-15
10
1 Fentometer
Face to face with a
proton.
-16
10
100 Atómeters
‘Quark’ particules
There is nowhere
more to go...
At the limits of current
scientific knowledge .
This is the limit of
matter...
What do you share in
common with the universe?
What are you capable of?
What did you come here to
do?