Lecture L3.3. The Academy of Wisdom and Enlightenment (AWE)

Macroscopic & Microscopic Concepts

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Seeing the

World Through

Lens

To The 10th Power

From Macroscopic to Microscopic

The 10th Power

Starting from 100 (That is one meter), we shall increase our distance by the power of 10, from 101 (10 meter), 102 (10x10 = 100 meter), 103 (10x10x10 = 1,000 meter), 104 (10x10x10x10 = 10,000 meter) and so on, until we reach cosmic macroscopic infinity.

From our starting point, we shall travel upward quickly with a speed increasing by 10 to the positive power, stop and then move oppositely with a speed increasing by 10 to the negative power, until we finally reach a magical microscopic world.

Please carefully observe the First Law of Thermodynamics, please also contemplate as humans how much more we need to learn about our universe...

Let’s buckle up!

Bon Voyage!

Are you ready?

In the garden, view of a leaf from 1 meter distance

100

1 m

Zoom out

At 10 meters high, we see a cluster of vegetation

101

10 m

Zoom out higher

At this altitude, we see borders of the vegetation and a school

102

100 m

Zoom out higher and higher

We now switch from meter to kilometer

We will probably need parachutes from this altitude...

103

1 km

Zoom out higher, higher…

View of a entire city at this altitude, however, we are no longer able to see individual buildings.

104

10 km

Zoom out until view of city

View of Florida state of USA at this altitude

105

100 km

Now state of Florida

This is a typical satellite view of the state of Florida.

106

1,000 km

Satellite view

Parts of the Northern and Southern Hemisphere

107

10,000 km

Northern and Southern Hemisphere

At this moment, the Earth is getting smaller and smaller...

108

100,000 km

Earth getting smaller

Orbit of the Moon around the Earth is represented by the white circle

109

1 million km

Moon’s Orbit

Orbit of the Earth is represented by the blue arc

1010 10 million km

Earth’s Orbit

101

1

100 million

km

Orbit of Venus is represented by the green arc and orbit of the Earth is represented by the blue arc

Venus and Earth

Mercury,Venus,Earth and Jupiter’s orbits

1012 1 billion km

The other Orbits

From this altitude,we can see the solar system and the orbits of the nine planets

1013

10 billion km

The solar system…

1014 100 billion

km

The solar system looks smaller from this altitude

10 to the power of 14

Now, the solar system looks just like one of the stars

1015

100 billion km

Solar system looks like a star

From the distance of one light year, the solar system looks very tiny

1016

1 light year

Solar system hard to see

From this infinitude, we cannot even see the solar system

101

7

10 light years

Solar system not seen

“There is nothing”

all we can see is stars and nebula

1018

100 light years

Stars and nebula

1019

1,000 light years

At this distance, we are now travelling in the Milky Way

The Milky Way

We continue to tour the Milky Way

1020

10,000 light years

The Milky Way Tour

We are now at the periphery of the Milky Way

1021

100,000 light years

Outskirts of Milky Way

From this far distance, we can see not only the milky way, but also other galaxies

1022

1 million light years

Other Galaxies

At this distance, all the galaxies seem small and far from each other.Every part of the universe is governed by the same physical laws.

We can continue to travel with our imaginations, but right now, let us hurry home

1023 10

million light years

Universe and galaxies

From this far distance, we can see not only the milky way, but also other galaxies

1022

1 million light years

Other Galaxies

We are now at the periphery of the Milky Way

1021

100,000 light years

Outskirts of Milky Way

We continue to tour the Milky Way

1020

10,000 light years

The Milky Way Tour

1019

1,000 light years

At this distance, We are now travelling in the Milky Way

The Milky Way

“There is nothing”

All we can see is stars and nebula

1018

100 light years

Stars and nebula

From this infinitude, we cannot even see the solar system

101

7

10 light years

Solar system not seen

From the distance of one light year, the solar system looks very tiny

1016

1 light year

Solar system hard to see

Now, the solar system looks just like one of the stars

1015

100 billion km

Solar system looks like a star

1014 100 billion

km

The solar system looks smaller from this altitude

10 to the power of 14

From this altitude,we can see the solar system and the orbits of the nine planets

1013

10 billion km

The solar system…

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Jupiter’s orbits

1012 1 billion km

The other Orbits

101

1

100 million

km

Orbit of Venus is represented by the green arc and orbit of the Earth is represented by the blue arc.

Venus and Earth

Orbit of the Earth is represented by the blue arc.

1010 10 million km

Earth’s Orbit

Orbit of the Moon around the Earth is represented by the white circle.

109

1 million km

Moon’s Orbit

At this moment, the Earth is getting smaller and smaller...

108

100,000 km

Earth getting bigger

Parts of the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.

107

10,000 km

Northern and Southern Hemisphere

This is a typical satellite view of the state of Florida.

106

1,000 km

Satellite view

View of Florida state of USA at this altitude.

105

100 km

Now state of Florida

104

Questions we ask ourselves..

Who are we? Where are we from? Where are we going?

Questions?

103

Or…What do we amount to in this universe?

Our value

102

During this travel, “Keep going up” took us as far as 1023

Down to102

101

Now, we are turning to another direction to look down and inwards...

Turn around

Now we have returned to the starting point of this trip, and this distance is within reach of our arm...

100

Back to point A

We are closing in to a distance of 10 cm, and now we can describe what a leaf looks like.

10-1

10 cm

Learning & Thinking

From this distance we can observe the fine structures of a leaf.

10-2

1 cm

Zoom in at a closer look

The cellular structure of the leaf tissue begins to appear.

10-3

1 mm

Cellular structure

Cells can be seen clearly.You can observe how cells are architectured together.

10-4

100 micro

Micro view of cells

Our journey is entering inside the cell…

10-5

10 micron

Cells

Cell nucleus can be seen now

10-6

1 micron

Cell Nucleus

We alter the measure unit again to observe more tiny objects

Now you can see the chromosome of cells.

10-7

1,000 angstrom

(Å)(parts per

hundred million cm)

Chromosome

Under this microscopic view, we are able to see the DNA double helix chains

10-

8

100 Å

The DNA

We see the DNA chain is made up of nucleotide molecules joint together…let us go inside a molecule

10-9

10 Å

DNA chains

Looking at the electrons clouds of a carbon atoms (that make up all living things on earth).

You will see that the microscopic view looks very similar to the macroscopic universe.

10-10

1 Å

Similarity of macro/micro view

10-

11

10 picometer

In this atomic world, we see electrons circulating around the atomic nucleus, made up of protons & neutrons

Atomic nucleus

Seems to be an infinite amount of space between the electron orbit and the nucleus...

10-12

1 picometer

Infinite space

Under this unbelievable microscopic view, we can see the atomic nucleus...

10-13

100 femtometer 1 picometer ＝ 1,000 femtometer

Microscopic view

Finally, we can see the carbon atomic nucleus…let us go inside the nucleus

10-14

10 femtometer

Atomic nucleus

Now we enter the world of scientific imagination, face to face with the proton

10-

15

1 femtomet

er

Nucleus to proton

Seeing the Quark Particle that make up the proton.We cannot get any closer. We have reached the limit of modern science,the boundaries of our current understanding of our physical universe

10-16

100 Atómeters

Learning & Thinking

• So think about it, are you the center of the universe?

• Are you a special creation amongst the billions of other creations in the world?

• What exist outside of our boundary? Is there any boundary?

• Think about it, if we go “down”, we can only go as small as 10-16, and reach the limit (or at least to the limit that is defined by Modern Science). However, if we go “up”, we can only go as far as 1023. Yet, we can follow our imagination and continue our journey as far as we want.

• So, who can say we are living alone in this universe?

Learning & Thinking

Assignments

1. Which number is bigger? The last number from the Avatamsaka Sūtra 74436767763955288882613195375699296257 or the last number from the modern USA and Modern British scheme 10303

2. how many log10 did we venture from the tiniest to the largest magnifications?

3. Think of some examples when huge numbers are useful

Space and I

Lift up your spirit

http://dingo.care2.com/cards/flash/5409/galaxy.swf

The scale of The Universe

http://htwins.net/scale2/

Feb 23, 2013 L3.3 Macro & Micro Concepts

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Feb 23, 2013 L3.3 Macro & Micro Concepts