Power of ten
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This document takes the reader on a trip through scales of size from micro to macro, zooming in and out by factors of 10. It starts at 1 meter and zooms outwards to distances of billions of lightyears, observing structures from leaves to galaxies. It then zooms back inwards through structures within cells like DNA and chromosomes down to distances of femtometers and the theoretical size of quarks. The document questions humanity's place in the universe and significance of structures at the limits of scientific knowledge. It suggests the universe could be much larger than our imagination and leaves the possibility of other life open-ended.
Power of ten
- 1. POWERS OF 10 M OO Z FROM MICRO TO MACRO COSMOS .
- 2. This is a trip at high speed, jumping distances by a factor of 10. Well start with 100 (equivalent to 1 meter), and will increase the size by a factor of 10, or 101 (10 meters), 102 (10x10 = 100 meters, 103 (10x10x10 = 1,000 meters), 104 (10x10x10x10 = 10,000 meters), so on, until we reach the limit of our imagination in the direction of the macro cosmos. Later well return, a little faster, back to the point where we started & continue our trip in the opposite direction reducing distances of travel by factors of 10 into the micro cosmos. We will observe the constancy of the laws of the universe and think about how much the human race still needs to learn...
- 3. BON VOYAGE!
- 4. 10 0 1 meter Distance to a bunch of leaves in the garden
- 5. 10 1 10 meters Starting our trip upwards .... We can see the foliage.
- 6. 10 2 100 meters At this distance we can see the limits of the forest and the edifications
- 7. 10 3 1 km We will pass from meters to kilometers.. Now it is possible to jump with a parachute ...
- 8. 10 4 10 km The city could be observed but we really cant see the houses
- 9. 10 5 100 km At this height, the state of Fl坦rida - USA, is just coming into view ...
- 10. 10 6 1,000 km Typical sight from a satellite
- 11. 10 7 10,000 km The northern hemisphere of Earth, and part of South America
- 13. 10 9 1 Milli坦n km The Earth and the Moons 坦rbit in white....
- 14. 10 10 10 Million km Part of the Earths Orbit in blue
- 15. 10 11 100 Million km rbits of: Venus and Earth...
- 16. 10 12 1 Billi坦n km rbits of: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and J炭piter.
- 17. 10 13 10 Billion km At this height of our trip, we could observe the Solar System and the orbits of the planets
- 18. 10 14 100 Billion km The Solar System starts looking small...
- 19. 10 15 1 Trilli坦n km The Sun now is a small star in the middle of thousands of stars...
- 20. 10 16 1 light-year At one light-year the little Sun star is very small
- 21. 10 17 10 light-years Here we will see nothing in the infinity....
- 22. 10 18 100 light-years Nothing Only stars and Nebulae...
- 23. 10 19 1,000 light-years At this distance we are travelling in the Via-L叩ctea (Milky Way), our galaxy.
- 24. 10 20 10,000 light-years We continue our travel inside the Via-L叩ctea (Milky Way)
- 25. 10 21 100,000 light-years We begin reaching the periphery of the Via-L叩ctea (Milky Way)
- 26. 10 22 1 Milli坦n light-years At this tremendous distance we can see the entire Via-L叩ctea (Milky Way) & other gal叩xies as well ...
- 27. 10 - 10 Million light-years 23 From this distance, all the galaxies look small with immense empty spaces in between. The same laws are ruling all bodies of the Universe. We could continue traveling upwards with our imagination, but now lets return home quickly
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- 46. 10 4 Questions that come to mind ... Who are we? Where are we going? Where did we come from?
- 47. 10 3 Or... What do we represent in the Universe?
- 48. 10 2 In this trip upwards we went to the power of 23 of 10
- 49. 10 1 Now we are going to dig inside of matter in a reverse (inverse) trip...
- 50. 10 0 We arrive at our starting point. We could touch it with our hands ...
- 51. 10 -1 10 Cent鱈meters Getting closer at 10 cm ...We can delineate the leaves.
- 52. 10 -2 1 Cent鱈meter At this distance it is possible to observe the structure of the leaf.
- 53. 10 -3 1 Mill鱈meter The cellular structures begin to show...
- 54. 10 -4 100 microns The cells can be delineated. You can see the union between them.
- 55. 10 -5 10 microns Starting our trip inside the cell ...
- 56. 10 -6 1 micr坦n The nucleus of the cell is visible.
- 57. 10 -7 100 Nanometers Again we changed the measuring unit to adapt to the miniscule size. You can see the chromosomes.
- 58. 10 -8 10 Nanometers In this micro universe the DNA chain is visible.
- 59. 10 -9 1 Nanometer ...the chromos坦me blocks can be observed.
- 60. 10 -10 1 Angstrom It appears like clouds of electrons... These are carbon 叩toms that formed our world. You should notice the resemblance of the micro cosmos with the macro cosmos ...
- 61. 10 -11 10 Picometers In this miniature world we could observe the electrons orbiting the atoms.
- 62. 10 -12 1 Pic坦meter An immense empty space between the nucleus and the electron orbits...
- 63. 10 -13 100 Femt坦meters At this incredible and minuscule size we could observe the nucleus of the atom.
- 64. 10 -14 10 Femt坦meters Now we could observe the nucleus of the carbon atom
- 65. 10 -15 1 Femt坦meter Here we are in the field of the scientific imagination, face to face with a proton.
- 66. 10 -16 100 Att坦meters Examine the quark part鱈cules There is nowhere further to go... We are at the limits of current scientific knowledge . This is the limit of matter...
- 67. And now ... Are you the center of the universe? Are you the special creature of the Creati坦n? What is behind the limits? Are there any limits? Note that going downwards we could only go to the power of minus 16捉 of 10 to reach the (known?) limits of matter... But upwards we went to the power of 23捉 of 10 and stopped... But we could have continued our trip subject only to the limits to our imagination!!!! ... then? ... Who says that we are alone in the universe?
- 68. Hope you enjoyed the trip. The End!