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MobilityBundle Regular user Las Vegas/Boston 120 Posts |
I guess the answer depends on your attention span.
Here is a video showing, in real time and to-scale, the journey of a light ray from the sun to just beyond Jupiter. In more detail, in the creator's words: Quote:
In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it's unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system, from a human perspective. At around 45 minutes long, I'm not sure how many people will watch the whole thing from start to finish. But it it's fun to skip around a little. And in any case, this video provides a good perspective of what the scales of the solar system are in a way that's a little more "sensory" than just pushing around exponents in scientific notation. Enjoy! https://vimeo.com/117815404 |
tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Thanks.
Sadly though my computer seems too slow to play these Vimeo films very well.
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magicfish Inner circle 7004 Posts |
Incredible. Thank you.
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Ian McColl Inner circle 1493 Posts |
Great stuff, thanks
the youtube version runs faster on my computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AAU_btBN7s
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