Science Engine

Categories: General Science | Web Resource
Tags: powers of ten; subatomic particles; universe; scientific notation; size
Powers of Ten Demonstration 
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Date Added Date added: 2008-08-28 12:00:00
Last Updated Thursday 28th of August 2008

Powers of Ten Demonstration

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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.

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