I remember a teacher showing Powers of Ten in school. I didn’t understood it’s magnitude then, and I’m sure it’s over my head now. It’s a fascinating intellectual journey that transports us from a lakeside picnic in Chicago to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds the starting point is ten times further from us… until eventually our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light among many others. We return to earth at mind-boggling speed and back into the hand of the sleeping picnicker. (My dermatologist loves this part.) Our journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell. Made by the Eames Brothers (© 1977), Charles and Ray, it’s as cool as one of Ray’s chairs. YouTube commenter “Grainysmith” sums it up best: “It is all about perspective. We are everything and nothing at the same time.”
