Scale of the universe site [Archive]

Winston001

25th March 2011, 22:27

For anybody interested in science, this is very very good.

http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/

There is a slider which moves the view inside an atom and back out to the whole universe. Great for kids: I'm going to tie my teenagers up and make them name the particles. :corn:

blackdog

25th March 2011, 22:32

Fantastic thanks for the post.

About 7 views through now and only just getting my head round it!

Who says we are not alone?

mashman

25th March 2011, 22:41

heh, pretty cool... will sit the kids down if it's raining tomorrow (which it probably will be), see if they're interested :)

Have a simple solar system one in return (http://www.gunn.co.nz/astrotour/?data=tours/retrograde.xml). Best way to use this one, click on the pause icon ||, zoom in a little, grab Earth and move it, otherwise the date controls are a PITA :)

LBD

25th March 2011, 22:56

A neat link thanks......and a couple of my favorite DA quotes....

Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space, listen

“It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.”

Usarka

25th March 2011, 23:01

I've seen bigger.

blackdog

25th March 2011, 23:10

A neat link thanks......and a couple of my favorite DA quotes....

Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space, listen

“It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.”

thhgttg rocks! i have all the original bbc radio tapes, the books (of course), very fuzzy old video tapes of the tv adaptation, the meaning of liff 1 and 2, both dirk gently's, and was rapt when the old Marvin showed up in the new(ish) movie.

I am sorry for the inconvenience.

onearmedbandit

26th March 2011, 00:47

And bookmarked for the next time I take...um... a trip, of sorts. Ya know?

EJK

26th March 2011, 01:17

I feel so HUGE!!!!!!!

...and now I feel so small... :-(

P.S. It is breath taking.

malfunconz

26th March 2011, 05:29

insignificent me

Fatt Max

26th March 2011, 10:52

That is really good. I recently read Bryson's "A Short History of Almost Everything' and that goes into some detail about the creation and scale of the universe, this site really does put all the final angles on everything.

Great work, thanks for sharing

John_H

26th March 2011, 12:14

That is really good. I recently read Bryson's "A Short History of Almost Everything' and that goes into some detail about the creation and scale of the universe, this site really does put all the final angles on everything.

Great work, thanks for sharing

Great book. We can't really comprehend how big the universe it. People can try to give indications by using analogies but we don't have anything else relative to base our imaginations on, so we can't comprehend anything this big so far outside our frame of reference.

Winston001

26th March 2011, 14:54

I recently read Bryson's "A Short History of Almost Everything'.....

Agreed, an excellent book written by a non-scientist for ordinary readers.

Elysium

26th March 2011, 15:07

Shit, good find Winston.

Usarka

26th March 2011, 15:09

I just zoomed in from "1um the smallest thing a surgical mask can block out" and the next thing was......HIV :shit:

Edit: Where is MEGASHARK?????????

James Deuce

26th March 2011, 16:24

God will be very unhappy with that link.

steve_t

26th March 2011, 17:09

Awesome! :niceone: A bit funny having yoctometres as the smallest measurement and yottometres as the largest. I'll never remember this :blink::innocent:

We really do need to find a way to travel faster than light or through wormholes or something

James Deuce

26th March 2011, 17:12

We really do need to find a way to travel faster than light or through wormholes or something

Why, so we can fuck over a bunch of planets that don't deserve it?

Elysium

26th March 2011, 17:18

Why so we can fuck over a bunch of planets that don't deserve it?

Well that is human nature isn't it?

steve_t

26th March 2011, 17:21

Why so we can fuck over a bunch of planets that don't deserve it?

Yep. We'll eventually run out of natural resources :innocent:

Plus there might be other intelligent life in the universe but what's the use if it takes 200,000 years of travelling at the speed of light to get there? Not that we can go anywhere near the speed of light. They might have medical advances, technology to predict earthquakes, etc etc.

James Deuce

26th March 2011, 17:22

Yep. We'll eventually run out of natural resources :innocent:

Good. I hope we die out.

Big Dave

26th March 2011, 20:21

Jim. Double your medication for a few days.

Big Dave

26th March 2011, 21:46

Brett

27th March 2011, 22:21

God will be very unhappy with that link.

Not following you line of thought?

Indiana_Jones

27th March 2011, 22:53

dipshit

27th March 2011, 23:16

This is a good one too...

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LBD

28th March 2011, 01:36

I am starting to feel a little insignificant.....

Captian soup

29th March 2011, 00:09

wow thats cool thanks for the link... i have to say that Bryson book was probably the best thing iv read to date, and until just now the only place(minus hardcore physicist labs and journals i guess) quarks get mentioned, ppl look at me like iv escaped from a mental hospital when i mention them.. dont they attract the same charge and repel the oppisitely charged quarks and bond diffrently to protons neutrons ect ... amazing stuff that.

My 2c

Oakie

29th March 2011, 21:05

God will be very unhappy with that link.

Actually no. I'm good with it but thanks for your concern.

Oakie

29th March 2011, 21:07

wow thats cool thanks for the link... i have to say that Bryson book was probably the best thing iv read to date, and until just now the only place(minus hardcore physicist labs and journals i guess) quarks get mentioned, ppl look at me like iv escaped from a mental hospital when i mention them.. dont they attract the same charge and repel the oppisitely charged quarks and bond diffrently to protons neutrons ect ... amazing stuff that.

My 2c

Great book and it was how he descibed the really small stuff that just blew me away.