Powers of Ten

The Powers of Ten films are two short documentary films written and directed by Charles and Ray Eames depicting the scale of the universe. wikipedia

Powers of Ten 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.

YOUTUBE 0fKBhvDjuy0 Uploaded on Aug 26, 2010

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.