This site has a great little java applet that zooms you from 10 million light years away from earth down to the smallest particles currently known to man. While I was watching this fascinating display I couldn’t help but be in awe of God’s incredible and magnificent creation. It’s so big, so amazing it’s hard to imagine. Most of the time we don’t thing outside of are small little part of our “universe”, so it was a good reminder of the size and our place in the world. How much more amazing and incredible is the creator himself?
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.