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"
• Table of the Nuclides, which includes an interactive chart listing ALL nuclides and their properties
• Live Chart of the Nuclides

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

• An interactive periodic table
• The Photographic Periodic Table
• The Internet Database of Periodic Tables

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

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)

• The Pioneer Missions
• Voyager 1 and 2 - includes the contents of the Golden Record attached to the spacecrafts
• Curiosity Mars Rover
• Pluto New Horizons
• Jupiter - Galileo and Juno
• Saturn - Cassini
• Sun - SOHO
• European Space Agency - check out the All missions link

Astronomy (10¹⁷ to 10²³ m)

• Wikipedia
• Scientific American chart
• UC San Diego Introduction to Astronomy
• A guide to backyard astronomy (Thanks to James Morgan)
  

Cosmology (10²⁴ to 10²⁵ m)

• Googol - definition of the googol and googolplex
• The home of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
• Wilkinson Microwave Anisotrophy Probe, or WMAP, has an excellent discussion of cosmology.
• Cosmology Primer by Sean Carroll
• ESA Planck mission - cosmic structure timeline - age of the universe
• Wikipedia - Timeline of the Far Future

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.
• 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.