Saturday, October 28, 2017

The Scale of the Universe

In science, we have been discussing the basics of chemistry and physics. Students have been building atomic models, creating comic book representations of the story of the Big Bang, and developing trading card games for the periodic table of the elements. The links below offer food for thought on some of the very big--and very small--types of matter encountered in this study. The first is a classic video from Charles and Ray Eames, Powers of Ten.


A more recent version of the same exercise, by Cary and Michael Huang, is a web-based interactive that shows the relative scale of different things in the universe. The website itself also contains numerous related scientific representations of our cosmic neighborhood.

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