Infinite Universe

The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida has put up a very Interesting Java applet on their site. It begins as a view of the Milky Way Galaxy viewed from a distance of 10 million light years and then zooms into towards Earth in powers of ten of distance. 10 million, to one million, to 100,000 light years and so on and then when 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. (wow) Here is the complete URL

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index

This is a fantastic representation of how magnificent the Universe is and how vastly infinite it is both in the macroscopic and the microscopic level ;) Thanks Srikanth for pointing this out to me PS: Seeing a web site using Java Applet after a very looong time ;)

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