.

Reality, imagination

or something else?

Let’s have a trip of the universe at high speed, jumping distances

by the factor of 10.

Starting with 100 equivalent to 1 meter,

and increasing sizes by factor of 10s, or 101 (10 meters),

102 (10x10 = 100 meters), 103 (10x10x10 = 1.000 meters)

and so on, until the limits

of our inmagination.

We’ll return, a little faster, up to the point where we started and would continue our trip in the opposite

direction.

BON VOYAGE!

Distance to a bunch of leaves in the garden

100

1 meter

We can see the foliage

101 10 meters

We can see the limits of the forest and the surroundings at this distance

102

100 meters

Now it is possible to jump with a parachute

103

1 km

The whole city can be observed

104

10 km

We can see the state of Florida – USA.

105

100 km

A typical sight from a satellite

106

1.000 km

The northern hemisphere of Earth showing a part of South America

107

10.000 km

The Earth starts looking smaller

108

100,000 km

The Earth and the Moon’s orbit in white

109

1 million km

A part of the Earth’s orbit in blue

1010

10 millions km

1011

100 millions km

Orbits of Venus and Earth

Orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Jupiter.

1012

1 billion km

At this height of our trip, we can observe the Solar System and the orbits of the planets

1013

10 billions km

1014

100 billions km

The Solar System starts looking smaller

Now the Sun is a small star in the middle of thousands other stars

1015

1 trillion km

The little Sun star is very small at one light-year

1016

1 light-year

Here we will see nothing in the infinity

1017

10 light-years

Nothing, only stars and Nebulae

1018

100 light-years

1019

1,000 light-years

At this distance, we start travelling the Via-Lactea (Milky Way) our galaxy

We continue our travel inside the Via-Lactea

1020

10,000 light-years

We reach the periphery of the Via-Lactea

1021

100,000 light-years

We can see all the Via-Lactea & other galaxies at this tremendous distance

1022

1 million light-years

From this distance, all the galaxies look small with inmense empty spaces in between.

We can further continue traveling upwards with our imagination but we’ll return home quickly from here

1023 - 10 million light-years

1022

1021

1020

1019

1018

1017

1016

1015

1014

1013

1012

1011

1010

109

108

107

106

105

104

Questions that come to our minds ...

Who are we?

From where did we come?

Where are we going?

103

Or... what do we represent in this Universe?

102

We went to the power of 23 of 10 in the upwards trip.

101

Now we are going to dig inside of the matter in an inverse journey

We have arrived at our starting point

100

We can delineate the leaves by getting closer at 10 cm

10-1

10 Centímeters

We can observe the leaf structure at this distance

10-2

1 Centímeter

The cellular structures start showing

10-3

1 Millímeter

Now the cells can be defined

We can see the unions between them

10-4

100 microns

Now we’ll go inside the cell

10-5

10 microns

The nucleus of the cell is visible

10-6

1 micron

Now we can see the chromosomes.

10-7

1,000 Angstroms

The DNA chains are visible in this micro universe.

10-8

100 Angstroms

Now the chromosomes blocks can be obsereved

10-9

10 Angstroms

It appears like clouds of electrons. These are carbon atoms that form our world

We can notice the resemblance of the microcosmos with the macrocosmos

10-10

1 Angstrom

In this miniature world, we can observe the electrons orbiting the atoms

10-11

10 picometers

An inmense empty space between the nucleous and the electron orbits

10-12

1 Picometer

At this incredible and minuscule size we can observe the nucleous of an atom

10-13

100 Fentometers

Now we can observe the nucleous of the carbon atom clearly

10-14

10 Fentometers

Here we are in the field of the scientific imagination, face to face with a proton

10-15

1 Fentometer

Examine the ‘quark’ partícles

There is nowhere more to go from here,at the limits of current scientific knowledge about matter

10-16

100 Atometers

Are we the center of the universe?

Are we the special creature of the Creation?

What is behind all these limits?

Are there really any limits?

• By going “downwards” we could only go to the power of minus 16ª of 10 and reached the known (?) limits of the matter.

• But “upwards” we went to the power of 23ª of 10 and stopped.

• Perhaps we could have further continued our trip without limits to our imagination.

How much we still need to learn about the universe?

..........and even about ourselves?

Qur’an says;

And among His signs is the creation of the Heaven and the Earth, and the variations in your languages and colors; verily in this are the signs for those who know.