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From: "Hoover, Jan J ERDC-EL-MS" <Jan.J.Hoover_at_erdc.usace.army.mil>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 2:16 PM
Subject: NANFA-- OT: Science Ed - Power of 10
> Members -
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> This is a pretty neat demonstration of scale in the universe. It can also
> be used to discuss certain themes in astronomy, biology, and physics.
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> - Jan
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> Florida State University has put up a very interesting Java applet on
> their website. 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, etc., until it 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. Whew!
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http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
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<http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.htm
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