{"id":888,"date":"2012-03-08T21:03:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T20:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lornemitchell.com\/blog\/?p=888"},"modified":"2012-03-08T22:10:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T21:10:34","slug":"the-scale-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=888","title":{"rendered":"The Scale of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was chatting to Oscar the other night and he pointed me to a really interesting site:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/htwins.net\/scale2\/\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"437\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If the frame above does not work for you, then you can link to the site <a title=\"Scale of Things\" href=\"http:\/\/htwins.net\/scale2\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>. \u00a0It makes you think how extraordinarily small in the Universe we are. \u00a0And how big we are too! \u00a0If you did not see my previous entry, the great 1977 video from IBM:\u00a0<a title=\"Powers of Ten\" href=\"http:\/\/lornemitchell.com\/?p=235\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Powers of Ten&#8221;<\/a>, then have a look at that too.<\/p>\n<p>The day before, I had come across another rather more abstract view that sets a new world record for representing a <a title=\"Mandelbrot\" href=\"http:\/\/lornemitchell.com\/?p=243\" target=\"_blank\">Mandelbrot<\/a> Set &#8211; which gives a bit more of a zany trip towards infinity.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0jGaio87u3A\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"437\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oscar liked it &#8211; and called it &#8220;trippy&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>I hope these two views stretch your mind to think a bit more about our place in the Universe, touching both your left and right brains.<\/p>\n<p>As ever, please feel free to comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was chatting to Oscar the other night and he pointed me to a really interesting site: If the frame above does not work for you, then you can link to the site HERE. \u00a0It makes you think how extraordinarily small in the Universe we are. \u00a0And how big we are too! \u00a0If you did &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=888\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Scale of Things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[70,69,42,41,5,37,62,43,53,65,45,60,57,46],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DQGK-ek","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":905,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=905","url_meta":{"origin":888,"position":0},"title":"Switch Off: I Will If You Will","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"28\/03\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"On a similar theme of last week's Global Awareness Campaign, I came across the developing idea of a \"Global Earth Hour\".\u00a0 Surely it is a good idea to spend one hour a year thinking about the Earth? 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