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Niel Brandt's Timelines and Scales of Measurement Page
Including
Scales of Measurement,
Evolutionary / Geological Timeline,
Cosmological Timeline.
Universe
Tree at National Solar Observatory/Sacramento Peak.
Orders of magnitude: Distance A long length scale diagram.
The Magnitudes of Physics
Data Powers of Ten
[also here]
The
Scale of Things A brief PoT zoom.
Exploring the Powers of Ten
Rough prototype of a Java `Powers of Ten' zoomer for length.
Powers of Ten A few pictures from the movie.
Powers of Ten
What are the powers of ten? Students create mathematics
manipulatives to explore powers of ten.
A
26-step jaunt through space and time
A Grand Tour of the Universe, by the Powers of Ten - an NFS grant for a Museum exibit
The Powers of Ten in Time - an NSF grant
Using the Powers of Ten in Mathematics and Science Education
Scales of the Universe exibit, Rose Center, American Museum of Natural History
COCA: gallery | Powers of Ten exhibit[link broken] [discussed
here]
Hidden Kingdoms - an exibit including x1000 scale objects
History of the World's
HyperHistory Online
Pacing Earth's history using galactic orbits.
Earth has circled the galaxy 18 times. The dinosaurs died
out 2/5's of an orbit ago. Fish began almost 2 orbits ago.
Multicellular life, about 4. This way of describing time is perhaps
complimentary to the usual n million years ago.
Comments encouraged. - Mitchell N Charity <mcharity@lcs.mit.edu> |
Notes:
Early ('97?) notes ripped from above...
Either notable objects, merely ordered:
universe, galaxy, solar system, sun, planets, mountain, you, insects,
microbes, proteins, molecules.
or labeling even magnitude steps (this is mass, with steps of 1010 kg):
universe, galaxy, sun, moon, mountain, you, tiny bug, piece of cell, atom, light.
or clumped in magnitude steps:
universe
moon, sun, galaxy
knat, you, mountain
piece of cell, atom, light
or...
energy density
surface area density (sorbent)
single massergy page?
Doables:
Find a Geological Timescale link to replace the one which broke.
Clean up. Overhaul.
History:
2003-Feb-03 Repaired links - 3 fixed, 1 left (cacr), 1 flagged, 2 added.
2001-Aug-12 Checked links, added PoT links, slightly rearranged page.
1998.Aug.24 And removed one which the author had not intended to make public.
1998.Aug.21 Added a few links.
1998.Aug.05 Added History, Doables, and links to Resources and CosmicView.
1997.summer Created.