This document describes a journey through scales of size from 1 meter to billions of light years and back down to fractions of an atom. It explores scales from the macrocosm of galaxies down to the microcosm inside an atom. The key ideas are that the laws of physics remain consistent across all scales and that there is still much to learn about the universe at both macro and micro scales.
2. This is a trip at high speed, jumping distances by factor of 10. Start with 10 0 equivalent to 1 meter, and increasing sizes by factor of 10s ,or 10 1 (10 meters), 10 2 (10x10 = 100 meters, 10 3 (10x10x10 = 1.000 meters), 10 4 (10x10x10x10 = 10.000 meters), so on, until the limit of our inmagination in direction to the macrocosmos. Later lets return, a little faster, up to the point where we started and continue our trip in the opposite direction reducing distances of travel by factors of 10 into the microcosmos. Observe the constancy of the laws of the universe and think about how much the human race still needs to learn...
17. At this height of our trip, we could observe the Solar System and the orbits of the planets 10 13 10 billons de km
18. 10 14 100 Billons de km The Solar System starts looking small...
19. The Sun now is a small star in the middle of thousands of stars... 10 15 1 trill坦n de km
20. At one light-year the little Sun star is very small 10 16 1 light-year
21. Here we will see nothing in the infinity.... 10 17 10 light-year
22. Nothing Only stars and Nebulae... 10 18 100 light-years
23. 10 19 1,000 light-years At this distance we started travelling the Via-L叩ctea (Milky Way), our galaxy.
24. We continued our travel inside the Via-L叩ctea. 10 20 10,000 light-years
25. We started reaching the periphery of the Via-L叩ctea 10 21 100,000 light-years
26. At this tremendous distance we could see all the Via-L叩ctea & other gal叩xies too... 10 22 1 milli坦n light-years
27. From this distance, all the galaxies look 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 10 23 - 10 million light-years
60. It appears like clouds of electrons... These are carbon 叩toms that formed our world. You could notice the resemblance of the microcosmos with the macrocosmos... 10 -10 1 Angstrom
61. In this miniature world we could observe the electrons orbiting the atoms. 10 -11 10 pic坦meters
62. An inmense empty space between the nucleous and the electron orbits... 10 -12 1 Pic坦meter
63. At this incredible and minuscule size we could observe the nuceous of the atom. 10 -13 100 Fent坦meters
64. Now we could observe the nucleous of the carbon atom 10 -14 10 Fent坦meters
65. Here we are in the field of the scientific imagination, face to face with a proton. 10 -15 1 Fent坦meter
66. Examine the quark part鱈cules There is nowhere more to go... At the limits of current scientific knowledge . This is the limit of matter... 10 -16 100 At坦meters
67. And now ...Are you the center of the universe? Are you the special creature of the Creati坦n? What is behind those limits? Are there any limits? Note that going downwards we could only go to the power of minus 16捉of 10 and reached the (known?) limits of matter... But upwards we went to the power of 23捉 of 10 and stopped... But really we could have continued our trip with out limits to our imagination!!!! ... then? ...who says that we are alone in the universe?