This page provides examples, links, and references for the inclusion of Scale into our model of space:

My essay entry to the FQXi 2015 Essay Contest:  Can Mathematics Reasonably Represent Nature?

“Cosmic Zoom” – This 1968 film probes the infinite magnitude of space, and its reverse, the ultimate minuteness of matter. Animation art and animation camera achieve this journey to the farthest conceivable point of the universe and then into the tiniest particle of existence–an atom of a living human cell–with a freshness and clarity that would seem impossible with other means of exposition. Film without words.  (8 minutes)

Powers of Ten (1977) takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only a s a speck of light among many others. Returning to Earth with breathtaking speed, we move inward- into the hand of the sleeping picnicker- with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. Our journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell.
POWERS OF TEN © 1977 EAMES OFFICE LLC     (9 minutes)

‘The Scale of the Universe 2’  A journey through the objects of science, using a slider to move across scale.   (3 1/2 minutes)

For an interactive version:  http://htwins.net/scale2/

 

 

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