Both works depict the relative scale of the Universe according to an order of magnitude (or logarithmic scale ) based on a factor of ten, first expanding out from the Earth until the entire universe is surveyed, then reducing inward until a single atom and its quarks are observed.
#EAMES THE POWER OF TEN SERIES#
Just recently, the United States Postal Service issues a series of stamps highlighting their work. The Powers of Ten films are two short American documentary films written and directed by Charles and Ray Eames. ”Ĭharles and Ray Eames were best known not as scientists or science educators, but as designers. And Nickelodeon Magazine has even turned these pictures into a child's “Powers of Ten Game. For instance, thumbnail pictures at each power of ten have been collected into a poster, so you can view the different scales of the universe all at once. At a website based on the book you can view many of the pictures and find other interesting items. You don't have to buy Powers of Ten to enjoy it (although your money will be well spent if you do). We find the ability to imagine the relative sizes of biological objects to be crucial for understanding life. The film is based on an earlier book, Cosmic View: The Universe in Forty Jumps, by the Dutch educator Kees Boeke.Īs I discussed in the Octoentry in this blog, Russ Hobbie and I added a section on Distances and Sizes to the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology, motivated in part by Powers of Ten. Powers of Ten was based on an earlier film by the Office of Charles and Ray Eames of the same title, which can be viewed on YouTube. Travel from the edge of the universe to an atom in the hand of a sleeping man at a picnic. Stephen Jay Gould said of the book “The effect is stunning and teaches more about the size of things than any turgid treatise could. 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. This classic film takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. The small central square frames the scene next inward. Powers of 10 (short film) by Charles and Ray Eames for IBM in 1977. The step from one scene to its neighbor is always made a tenfold change: The edge of each square represents a length ten times longer or shorter than that of its two neighbors. Across from every black-framed page is a page of text and picture, a pause at each step along the journey to examine detail, evidence, or the history of knowledge. Each image stands against a black background, a little reminiscent of a darkened theater. By themselves, they present a visual model of our current knowledge of the universe, showing along one straight line both the large and the small. Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a successful businessman's long-lost brother, who holds a secret about the manner of their biological mother's death. With Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Eric Bogosian, Sam Trammell. The core of this book is the scenes on the forty-two right-hand pages that follow. Powers of Ten: A Film Dealing With the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zero. Identity Crisis: Directed by Michael Smith.
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