Powers of Ten
- Philip Morrison: narrator
Ten High (English Powers of 10) is a short film by Charles and Ray Eames in 1977. Act of the nine- minute-long film is a journey between quasars and quarks, in the dimensions of the remotest and largest and smallest structures that are the subject of scientific research is. The film shows in a clear and impressive manner customary in the 20th century science orders of magnitude ( 40 orders of magnitude from 1024 to 10-16 meters), with which our universe can be described.
The eponymous book of the film illustrated with many pictures and additional texts 42 stations between macro - and microcosm.
Action
The film begins with the inclusion of a pair at a picnic at Lake Michigan from the sky. The picture shows a white square is shown, the edge length equal to one meter. The camera now moves away, always directed to the same point on a logarithmic scale away from the earth; it added more and more squares. Ten seconds equal one size factor of 10 When you reach the order of the universe is accelerating zoomed back to Earth. At the picnic arrived is - now back in normal speed - zoom in on a carbon atom in the skin of the man. A voice off comments on all the visible structures and compares the magnitudes.
Awards
Quote
" Eventually, everything connects. "
( German: "Ultimately, everything is connected. " )