Science Porn Monday: Theory of Everything and Powers of Ten
Please ignore the utterly cheese-tastic music, gentle readers. New Scientist has provided a brief, kaleidoscopic, fascinating, play-this-at-your-next-acid-party video about A. Garrett Lisi’s “Theory of Everything”.
And if that isn’t enough for you to get your scientific fix, here’s Powers of Ten, a short film about the effects of adding a zero to one’s level of magnification or distance from the typical human vantage point. For each magnification, or distance moved out, a single zero is added to the end, effectively multiplying the amount of magnification/distance by ten. Thus the title, Powers of Ten. It’s a short but fascinating comparison of the macrocosm to the microcosm.
