Scale of the universe

[Salgar]

This little flash thing is amazing, they should use this in schools.

http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe.sw...

It's almost scary.

[Ray Singh]

Thats fantastic.
Worth noting that a fast internet connection is needed to download it.

Why was it when i was at school everything was so boring. With that sort of thing i would have paid attention.

[10 Pence Short]

Ray Singh said:

Why was it when i was at school everything was so boring. With that sort of thing i would have paid attention.

Probably because the moment you achieved the mental reasoning capacity to understand complex theories coincided with the one where you discovered tits, fannies and booze.

[Speed_Demon]

Mind... is blown.

[Devilstreak]

Wow.

[hooperpride]

That is epic, something like that really does help you get your head around how insignificant we are in the grand scale of things.

[DaveL485]

Blimey.

Now every time I drink water i'll think of Mickey Mouse heads.

[tribbles]

Well, that didn't have the same effect as the Total Perspective Vortex.

Very nice though!

[Cheeky Jim]

Should put this on the Religion vs Science thread currently running.

[wiggy001]

Blimey... is it downloading the whole universe?

[Salgar]

Shameless bump as it really is cool

[Taffer]

Seeing as noone else had quoted THHGTTG yet:

"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space, LISTEN!" and so on..


Nice wee flash animation thing that - good find!

Edited by Taffer on Wednesday 17th March 19:53

[EINSIGN]

This is fantastic!

[havoc]

Absolutely awesome. Could not BELIEVE the size of some of those stars. Or how ridiculously small a neutrino is!

[DamianBPhoto]

Now that is simply amazing! Crazy how much significance we actually have in the universe. From the looks of this I would say... none.

[GTIR]

Ooh, ooh. Can't access it on my phone. Damn.

Can someone give me a brief overview? (in a Prof. Cox kind of way)

ta.

[Speed_Demon]

This is a good one.

Edited by Speed_Demon on Wednesday 17th March 21:09

[Comfortably Dumb]

GTIR said:

Ooh, ooh. Can't access it on my phone. Damn.

Can someone give me a brief overview? (in a Prof. Cox kind of way)

ta.

Slider in middle = Man sized things

move slider left = smaller things

move slider far left = smallest (theroised) things

move slider right = bigger things

move slider far right = biggest (known) things


Very impressive piece of work.

Edited by Comfortably Dumb on Wednesday 17th March 21:12

[GTIR]

Cool. Sounds quite something.

(Although, I've just seen a man come through Heathrow arrivals with an eye patch and a hook as a hand! )

[Halb]

Salgar said:

This little flash thing is amazing, they should use this in schools.

http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe.sw...

It's almost scary.

Distance is an illusion and all places are in fact the same place, it's just that although all places are in fact the same place, that place is very big.

sen these?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS88G5WBcfQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1w8hKTJ2Co

Edited by Halb on Wednesday 17th March 21:29