Found this thing today, totally mind blown about this. Scroll your way to the smallest thing registered on earth to the estimated size of the Universe. Also you can click on every object and read a little bit about it. And its even better when I found out this is done by two guys in 9th grade. Cary Huang 14 years old and his brother which helped him with the technical stuff.
I takes some time to load but I promise it is worth it.
“My seventh grade science teacher showed us a size comparison video on cells, and I thought it was fascinating. I decided to make my own interactive version that included a much larger range of sizes,” said Cary in an email forwarded by his mother. “It was not a school project — just for fun. However, my science teacher loved it so much she showed [it] to the class! My brother, Michael, helped me put it on the internet.”
Cary said he worked on the project, on and off, for a year and a half, getting information from Wikipedia and astronomy books. It is now spreading virally online.
Click on objects in the animation for more information. Cary said he invites people to correct any errors they find. This is his second version, he said; the first had less information in it, and the graphics needed work.
“We’re not sure what we want to do after we finish school, although we’re both interested in computer programming and animation,” said Cary. “And astronomy is also cool!”
Asked if he thought there was a lesson to be learned from the project, Cary wrote, “I would like to say that humankind is a very small part of the universe we live in. There could be so much more out there, but we just don’t know it yet.”
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