Constructing "scale desktops" |
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Some notes on constructing your own "Scaling the Universe" desktops.
Here are some miscellaneous notes on constructing your own "scale desktops".Things you can do...
If you are a millimeter tall...
then you have micrometers in your hands.
The eye of a sewing needle is a doorway src |
to a grove of hair "trees" src |
made of poster tubes, or pipe insulation, or rolled-up newspaper, or those long pool float things.
100 um diameter |
M&M red blood cells
10 um | src |
Comments encouraged. - Mitchell N Charity <mcharity@lcs.mit.edu> |
Notes: The `needle eye doorway' photo is from a New York Hall of Science exibit. The `hair' photo is from LANL's Electron Microscopy Laboratory, but I can't find it's current location there. Doables: So much... A big mm rule in micrometer land. History: 2003-Feb-03 Fixed links - 2 repaired. 1999.May.04 Created.