Scale of the universe site

**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.

**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. 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

Originally Posted by LBD

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

Originally Posted by Fatt Max

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.