A friend of mine emailed this to me:

"Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, has put together a very interesting Java applet on their site. It begins as a view of the Milky Way Galaxy viewed from a distance of 10 million light years and then zooms in towards Earth in powers of ten of distance. 10 million to one million, to 100,000 light years and so on and then finally reaches a large Oak tree leaf. But that is not all. It zooms into the leaf until it reaches to the level of the quarks viewed at 100 attometers.

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/j...f10/index.html

This is a fantastic representation of how magnificient the Universe is and how vastly infinite it is both in the macroscopic and the microscopic levels."

Enjoy!
Jason

Hi Jason!

See also the original version of this idea: "Powers of Ten", a short film done in the early 1970s by industrial designers Charles and Ray Eames. Exact same idea, except that the sub-atomic view is going into the skin on the hand of a sleeping picnicker in a Chicago lakeside park. You can link to this film by going to www.eamesoffice.com (maintained by the Eameses' grandson, Eames Demetrious).

Nice work by FSU, though.

Cool!

Way cool! Rusty, think of it as the Travel of Next Tuesday.

There's an IMAX film using this power of 10. But instead of zeroing in on a picnicer in Chicago it's a child in St. Mark's Square in Venice. It's really cool in the IMAX format

You know, I'm a little puzzled by this. I posted a response on this thread to Gannet's gratuitous(and probably inaccurate, although I don't know for sure and it doesn't matter) comment, above. Gannet has posted under all kinds of screen names and has been busted each time. However, my post ended up getting deleted, while Gannet's is still there. Maybe Fodor's has a disgruntled employee - ??

rjw: Hi, pal! Thanks for the reference! I had never heard of Eames, but will be checking them out next trip to Santa Monica! Thanks for the reference! Cool site!

Meesthare: His post was deleted. Give Fodors some time! His posts don't stay on too long! I know how hard it is not to let the idiot get to you, but, patience, and he will get himself deleted one way or another! Have fun!

Jason

Aha - so it was. Thanks, Jason.

Hi Jason!

The Eames Office itself is a small storefront on Main Street in SM (I get my coffee every morning at the Starbucks down the block). Its main mission is to keep the legacy of the Eameses alive-- and sell knick-knacks (the House of Cards, books, etc.). I don't know if they still have the gallery show of Ray Eames' graphic work (she was an outstanding abstract artist). It's still a kida cool place.

Mornin", rjw!

Thanks for the additional input on the Eames Office.

Don't know when we will be in Santa Monica, but will look it up. My DW and I are always interested in all sorts of different things, especially those that are out of the ordinary.

Thanks again!
Jason

Why "BonneeJ", that's simply not true. We are all separate people. Why would you start posting such untruths?

By the way, nice correction of the usual "Union Sqaure" typo...!

BonneeJ, I find it unusual that your posts only begin in the last hour or two, yet you're already making personal accusations against other posters.

For that matter, I also find it odd that your messages so far have been verbatim, or slightly edited, "greatest hits" of someone who has posted under (at my rough count) over 60 aliases, down to the mispellings and URLs for San José "attractions". I dunno, but I don't think I am the candidate for the diagnosis of Multiple Personality Disorder....

Amazing, Thank you Jason!