Re: Terror of Space

eugene@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eugene Miya) wrote in news:43b5e73e$1@darkstar:

> In article <u3tar1t67saqo8kb86s2v9c4d7o9ogqs9u@xxxxxxx>,
> Galen Hekhuis <ghekhuis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>On 30 Dec 2005 09:05:00 -0700, eugene@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eugene Miya)
>>wrote:
>>>When you do a progression of magnification from simple hand lenses to
>>>microscopes and telescopes, they have a combination of amusment,
> ...
>>>a kaledascope. If you just jump to high magnifications, you just get
>>>the last. You have to have the progression, and you get a
>>>progression. In many cases, these are the people who insist on
>>>"common sense."
>>
>>
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index
>>.html
>
> This is not bad.
> However, it fails to distinguishes art work from imagery.
> It's the same level as the IBM Powers of 10 film from the 1960s but
> updated with a few images.
>
> As you approach DNA and get to the old solid Bohr molecules and atoms,
> that is where this becomes merely an conceptual education tool.
> Nicely, they did have an electron microscope image.
> But you aren't going to change doubters opinions with this web site.

No, but you can help the intellegent and receptive. I had a friend with
formal training in biological sciences (now a professor of Immunology),
who didn't have a clue about the scale of astronomical objects. For
her, the sky was a glass bowl with lights a few miles up. Seriously. I
found a copy of Morrison & Morrison's bookn and gave it to her. I think
the lights came on her head (figuratively, of course).

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