Links

As a convenience, I have gathered together all of my links to external sites. The links are arranged by power of ten, from the small end to the large. I have further grouped the sites by the field of science that seems most appropriate. Enjoy!

Particle physics (10^-16 to 10^-11 meters)

• Fermilab's "Science of Matter, Space, and Time"
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's "The Particle Adventure Home Page"
• Table of the Nuclides, which includes an interactive chart listing ALL nuclides and their properties
• Another table of nuclides
• Chris Heilman's periodic table includes nuclides

Chemistry (10^-10 to 10^-7 m)

• Here is a site with links to some Periodic Tables. In fact, there are a few hundred links here. "In case you were thinking that the Internet needed one more."
• This site has some particularly unusual and original forms of the Period Table. I particularly like the tables by Stowe, Benfey, and Giguere.

Microbiology (10^-6 to 10^-3 m)

• Microscopy from the UK

Biology (10^-2 to 10³ m)

Geology (10⁴ to 10⁷ m)

• Earth and Moon Viewer -- A very useful site for creating globes or maps of Earth (or the Moon)

Planetary exploration (10⁸ to 10¹⁶ m)

• Voyagers 1 and 2
• Galileo
• Mars Pathfinder
• Mars Global Surveyor
• NEAR
• Cassini/Huygens
• Ulysses
• SOHO
• Hubble Space Telescope
• Here is a link to all of the NASA programs: past, present, and planned

Astronomy (10¹⁷ to 10²³ m)

• Tufts University stellar evolution
• UC San Diego Introduction to Astronomy

Cosmology (10²⁴ to 10²⁵ m)

• Googol defines the googol and googolplex
• The home of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
• Arif Babul of the University of Victoria has an online course on the Origins of Space, Time and Matter in the Universe. I particularly enjoyed A New Explanation: Myth or ...?, a narrative of the latest views on cosmology.
• Wilkinson Microwave Anisotrophy Probe, or WMAP, has an excellent and very current discussion of cosmology.

Other Sites Dealing with the Concept of Powers of Ten

• The entire essay "Cosmic View" by Kees Boeke written in 1957. There is another copy at vendian.org.
• The Microscopy at FSU site contains a Java movie. Check this out. The focus of this sequence is Tallahassee, Florida.
• CERN is the famous European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland. The focus of this sequence is their laboratory near Geneva.
• Mitchell Charity has a wonderful site devoted to astronomy and science in general. "A View from the Back of an Envelope" has been around for a long time -- an excellent resource. "How Big are Things?" uses a unique approach to the powers of ten concept. Go there and browse.
• Richard Powell's "An Atlas of the Universe" starts with the Sun's local neighborhood, accurately and artfully displaying our place in the Universe in 9 progressively larger views. Go here, too.