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Solar System: To Scale
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 6:37 am
by EdLee
To Scale: Our Solar System.
Re: Solar System: To Scale
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:37 am
by leichtloeslich
Reminded me a bit of
this.
Also, in Germany many cities have
"planetary paths", which is the solar system to scale (usually at a 1:1 billion ratio) along a footpath. And even though the whole solar system is about 6 kilometers at that ratio, single planets are mostly marble sized.
Re: Solar System: To Scale
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 8:04 am
by mimano
How about the sun? [emoji4]
Sorry, could not watch the video on the mobile when I posted the question, but got my answer now. Beautiful video indeed.
Re: Solar System: To Scale
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 9:26 am
by daal
leichtloeslich wrote:Reminded me a bit of
this.
Also, in Germany many cities have
"planetary paths", which is the solar system to scale (usually at a 1:1 billion ratio) along a footpath. And even though the whole solar system is about 6 kilometers at that ratio, single planets are mostly marble sized.
Exactly what I was going to post.
Re: Solar System: To Scale
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 9:34 am
by hyperpape
Powers of Ten This is another great visualization for a child who loves space and/or math. My daughter watched it almost every day for a week recently.
Re: Solar System: To Scale
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 9:34 am
by jeromie
Thanks. That's beautiful.
Re: Solar System: To Scale
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 2:39 pm
by Bonobo
Re: Solar System: To Scale
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 5:52 pm
by goTony
Great video thanks for sharing. We have a a planet walk in town which shows the relative distances from the sun.
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 8:30 pm
by EdLee
Hi hyperpape, Thanks
So cute and precious to see effects made by hand, not CG.

Re: Solar System: To Scale
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 6:04 pm
by Pippen
It's a pity we don't know if and what comes next to the smallest or greatest thing. Some supertiny things smaller than even a Planck-length (strings?)? Multiverses? Old man with a white beard giving high five to Jesus? I'd give 10 of my years away for knowing our absolute standpoint within the world.
Re: Solar System: To Scale
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 6:06 am
by Bonobo
Pippen wrote:It's a pity we don't know if and what comes next to the smallest or greatest thing. Some supertiny things smaller than even a Planck-length (strings?)? Multiverses?
I often imagine a hypothetic, ever-distant future where
somebody looking in the strongest ever microscope and somebody looking in the ever-strongest telescope, and both see … each other’s eye!Old man with a white beard giving high five to Jesus?
Old woman eating noodles?
I'd give 10 of my years away for knowing our absolute standpoint within the world.
I don't believe we can ever know this since there seems to be an ever-growing number of facts to know … with every new fact there come new questions, and sometimes many more than facts.