Powers of Ten
A few weeks ago a friend sent me the top ten pictures from Hubble. I do not know how the pictures were selected. The Hubble pictures look like artist renditions but are real. Here is the winner. 
Today on Yahoo there was an article about art as seen through a microscope. Yahoo moves articles off so quickly and then their search engine doesn’t find them, CNN/CNBC has this problem too. So I just found other sources. I decided to compare them to a book I bought a long time ago, called “Power of Ten”. The book was published in 1982 and the physical distance for which the image was discernible was 10^25 meters or about a billion light-years. Going in the opposite direction, an image could be produced for something at .1 fermi or 10^-16 meters. (Sorry for the crude math syntax, have to look for an equation plugin.
- Powers of Ten Book and Day
- Interactive slider from astrophysics to subatomic using a slider
- A more macro scale,
Another Java Applet providing real value, pan and zoom at various scales. I have yet to see anything this good in the RIA/Web 2.0 world when you exclude the social semantics.
So the two questions I didn’t answer?
- What is the furthest item imaged?
- What is the smallest object imaged?
