Macromicro

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POWER OF 10

ZOOM
FROM MICRO TO MACROCOSMOS
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This is a trip at high speed, jumping distances
by factor of 10.
Start with 1 meter, and increasing sizes by
factor of 10 ,or 101 (10 meters), 102 100
meters, 103 ( 1.000 meters, 104
10 000 meters, so on, until the limit of our
inmagination in direction to the macrocosmos.
Later lets return, a little faster, until the
point where we started and continue our trip in
oposite direction reducing distances to travel by
factor of 10 into the microcosmos.
Observe the constancy of the laws of the universe
and think about how much the human race still
need to learm...
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BON VOYAGE!
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100 1 meter
Distance to a bunch of leaves, in the garden
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101 10 meters
Start our trip upwards .... We could see the
foliage.
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102 100 meters
At this distance we can see the limits of the
forest and the buildings
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103 1 km
We will pass from meters to kilometers.. Now it
is possible to jump with a parachute ...
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104 10 km
The city could be observed but we really can not
see the houses
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105 100 km
At this height, the state of Florida - USA, can
be seen..
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106 1 000 km
Typical sight from a satellite
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107 10 000 km
The Northern hemisphere of Earth, and part of
South-America
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108 100 000 km
The Earth start looking small...
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109 1 million km
The Earth and the Moons orbit in white....
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1010 10 million km
Part of the Earths Orbit in blue
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1011 100 millon km
Orbits of Venus and Earth...
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1012 1 billion km
Orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and
Jupiter.
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1013 10 billon km
At this height of our trip, we could observe the
Solar System and the orbits of the planets
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1014 100 billon km
The Solar System start looking small...
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1015 1 trillion km
The Sun now is a small Star in the middle of
thousands stars...
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1016 1 light-year
At one light-year the little Sun star is very
small
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1017 10 light-years
Here we will see nothing in the infinity....
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1018 100 light-years
Nothing Only stars and Nebulae
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1019 1000 light-years
At this distance we started travelling the Milky
Way, our galaxy.
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1020 10 000 light-year
We continued our travel inside the Milky Way.
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1021 100.000 light-years
We started reaching the peripheric of the
Via-Láctea
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1022 1 millón light-years
At this tremendous distance we could see all the
Via-Láctea other galáxies too...
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1023 - 10 millons light-years
From this distance, all the galaxies looks small
with inmense empty spaces in between.The same
laws are ruling in all bodies of the Universe.
We could continue traveling upwards with our
imagination, but now we will return home quickly
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1022
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1021
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1020
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1019
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1018
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1017
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1016
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1015
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1014
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1013
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1012
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1011
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1010
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109
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108
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107
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106
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105
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104
Questions that came to our minds ... Who are we?
Where are we going? From where we came?
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103
Or... What we represent for the Universe?
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102
In this trip upwards We went to the power of
23 of 10
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101
Now we are going to dig inside of the matter in
an inverse trip...
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100
We arrived to our starting point. We could reach
it with our arm length...
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10-1 10 Centímeters
Getting closer at 10 cm We can delineate the
leave.
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10-2 1 Centímeter
At this distance it is possible observe the
estructures of the leave.
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10-3 1 Milímeter
The cellular estructures started showing...
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10-4 100 microns
The cells can be defined. You could see the
union between them.
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10-5 10 microns
Start our trip inside the cell...
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10-6 1 micrón
The nucleous of the cell is visible.
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10-7 1.000 Amgstrons
Again we changed the the messuring unit to adapt
to the minúscule size. You could see the
cromosomas.
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10-8 100 Amgstrons
In this micro universe the ADN chain is seen.
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10-9 10 Amgstrons
the cromosómatics blocks can be studied.
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10-10 1 Amgstron
It appears like clouds of electrons of carbon
átoms that formed our world. You could notice
the resemblace of the micro with the
macrocosmos...
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10-11 10 picómeters
In this miniature world we could observe the
electons orbiting the atoms.
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10-12 1 Picómetro
An inmense empty space between the nucleous and
the electron orbits...
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10-13 100 Fentómeters
At this incredible and minuscule size we could
observe the nuceous of the atom.
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10-14 10 Fentómeters
Now we could observe the nucleous of the Carbon
atom
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10-15 1 Fentómeter
Here we are in the field of the scientific
imagination face to face with a Proton.
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10-16 100 Atómeters
Examinating the quark partícules There is no
more where to go...At the current scientific
knowledge . This is the limits of the matter...
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And now Are you the center of the universe? What
is behind those limits? Are there any
limits? Note that downwards only we could go to
the power of minus 16ªof 10 and reached the
limits of the (know?) matter... But upwards we
went to the power of 23ª of 10 and stopped... But
really we could have continue our trip with out
limits of our imagination!!!! ... then? ...who
say that we are alone in the universe?
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END !