Thursday, February 25, 2010

Honestly, when I started watching this video, I thought that it was going to be really boring, but then I found out that it was not boring at all, in fact, I learned a lot from it. In this interesting video, I saw the universe in powers of 10. I discovered the relative size of some things in the universe. It began with a picnic in Chicago, a scene one meter wide which I view from one meter away, every ten seconds I looked from ten times further away and the field of view was be ten times wider and so on. I got to see the highways, the city, the lake, the earth, the space, the stars, and the moon. It even showed the orbital path of the neighbor planets, and the sun. Then, they did a trip back to the picnic beside the lake. When they got there, they started approaching little by little to the surface of the hand of the man laying on the ground. Later, I could see the skin, crossing layers, then the red and white cells appeared, and after this ones, the wall of the nucleus, the DNA. After this, they focused in three hydrogen atoms bounded by electrical forces to a carbon atom. Until they got to the inner electrons, and finally to a bask inner space. I found out that there are protons and neutrons in every nucleus, electrons in every atom. All this was really interesting to me because I had never heard about it. Besides, I think it was a great idea of making this awesome video to show us the things from another perspective. The effect of adding another zero to anything is incredible. Therefore, this amazing video really caught my attention in a good way.
by, Meilys FariƱas

1 comment:

  1. Good description. What did it mean to you? Why was it amazing?

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