Cosmo-Porn of the Day: Scale of the Universe

[mckitterick]

The clearest and most cleverly designed look at scale - from the smallest to the largest - that I've ever seen. It's also great technical communication: clear, interesting, novel, unique, useful... you name it. Click the image and check out Cary and Michael Huang's "Interactive Scale of the Universe Tool" (takes just a few seconds to load on a high-speed connection):


Click the image to see the website.

It's interesting that the site's creators speculate that the universe is many times larger than the observable universe. I also love watching the scale of things explode as we fall in and in and in toward the smallest structures.

Cool beans!
Chris

Comments

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Very cool, like the old "Power of Ten" movie, although their diameter of Eris is a little out of date.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I loved that little movie (and used it in my Sci-Tech-SF course), though the interactive nature of this one makes it nicer in many ways.