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Psychedelic picnic: physical scale by orders of magnitude

You know how planets with moons kinda look like atoms with electrons, and vice versa? Well, this short movie made in 1977 by Charles and Ray Eames shows that when you look at our world through lenses of different magnification, you start to see all sorts of similarities like that. It’s called Powers of Ten. Watch it before YouTube yanks it again.

02/11/07 by Axel Albin

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