A Tour of U and the Universe.
This is a trip at high speed, jumping distances by factor of 10.
Starting with 100 equivalent to 1 meter
Leaves, in the garden at your feet.
100
1 meter
Foliage.
101 10 meters
The forest and buildings
102
100 meters
Now it is possible to jump with a parachute ...
103
1 km
The city.
104
10 km
The county.
105
100 km
The state.
106
1.000 km
The hemisphere
107
10.000 km
Our home.
108
100.000 km
Earth and the Moon’s orbit.
109
1 million km
Part of the Earth’s Orbit
1010
10 Million km
1011
100 millon km
Orbits of: Venus and Earth...
Orbits of: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Jupiter.
1012
1 billion km
Our Solar System
1013
10 billion km
1014
100 Billion km
Beyond Our Solar System
Our Sun in the middle of thousands of stars...
1015
1 trillion km
Our little Sun star
1016
1 light-year
Our Star is now nothing in the infinity....
1017
10 light-years
Only surrounding stars and Nebulae...
1018
100 light-years
1019
1,000 light-years
Our neighbor-hood in the Milky Way Galaxy
More of our Milky Way Galaxy
1020
10,000 light-years
Edge of the Milky Way
1021
100,000 light-years
All of the Milky Way and the other galaxies too...
1022
1 million light-years
26
Galaxies galore.
1023
10 million light-years
27
Even more galaxies.
1024
100 million light-years
28
Farthest Map of the known Universe.
The same laws are ruling in all bodies of the Universe.
1044
156 billion light-years
29
1024
100 million light-years
We’re reversing now.
30
1023
10 million light-years
102
In this trip “upwards” we went to the power of 25 of 10
101
Now we are going to dig inside of the matter in an inverse trip...
Our starting point.
100
Leaves.
10-1
10 Centímeters
Structure of the leaf.
10-2
1 Centímeter
The cellular structures start showing...
10-3
1 Millimeter
Cells.
You can see the union between them.
10-4
100 microns
Just outside
the cell...
10-5
10 microns
Nucleus of the cell is visible.
10-6
1 micron
The chromosomes.
10-7
1.000 Angstroms
DNA chain.
10-8
100 Angstroms
...the chromosome blocks
10-9
10 Angstroms
The carbon atoms that form our world.
10-10
1 Angstrom
Here we can observe the electrons orbiting the atoms.
10-11
10 picometers
Immense empty space between the nucleus and the electron orbits...
10-12
1 Picometer
The nucleus of the atom.
10-13
100 Femtometers
Nucleus of the carbon atom
10-14
10 Fentometers
Face to face with a proton.
10-15
1 Fentometer
‘Quark’ particules
There is nowhere more to go...
At the limits of current scientific knowledge .
This is the limit of matter...
10-16
100 Atómeters
What do you share in common with the universe?
What are you capable of?
What did you come here to do?