(I wish they would have done the zoom in part of the video too, but maybe next year!)Īnd if you'd like to explore the scales of the universe for yourself, check out the Universe in a Nutshell app from Tim Urban and Kurzgesagt - you can zoom in and out as far as you want and interact with and learn about objects along the way. Understanding scale, or as the Eameses said, the effect of adding another zero, has the power to make us better scholars and better citizens. An adaptation of the Charles and Ray Eames classic 1968 documentary by the same name, Powers of Ten: A Flipbook, is an ocular journey dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero.
Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames, as seen at Charles & Ray Eames. The new video zooms out to the limits of our current observational powers, to about 100 billion light years away, 1000X wider than in the original. An Eames Celebration Vitra Design Museum Charles & Ray Eames. Our journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell.Īs an homage, the BBC and particle physicist Brian Cox have created an updated version that reflects what we've learned about the universe in the 45 years since Powers of Ten was made. Scale the print to fit your space with three different sizes and two frame options. While the 1977 film situates the picnic in a lakeside park in Chicago, the scene was actually shot outside the Eames Office in Venice, California. This is 10 01, 10 meters above the opening picnic scene. Returning to Earth with breathtaking speed, we move inward - into the hand of the sleeping picnicker - with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. Production art for the film Powers of Ten, 1977. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only a s a speck of light among many others. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Here's a description of the original film: Charles and Ray Eames' 1977 short film Powers of Ten is one of the best bits of science communication ever created.and a personal favorite of mine.
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