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Powers of 10 / Our Place in the Universe

This classic film is a work of art that just happens to lend itself quite nicely to a bit of KS4 Physics. “The film starts with a sleeping man at a picnic and every ten seconds, the camera moves ten times further away, measured in meters. When we get to the edge of the known universe, the journey reverses and we get ten times closer with each image. We enter the sleeping man’s hand and go deeper and deeper until we finally reach the level of a quark”. Below is… Read more Powers of 10 / Our Place in the Universe