First Lesson in Thinking
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First Lesson in Thinking
Synthesis vs. Analysis Issue
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ZOOMZOOM
Synthesize? or Analyze?
From MICRO To MACRO-COSMOS
and then back
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This is a trip at high speed, jumping distances by factor of 10.
Start 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), 104 (10x10x10x10 = 10.000 meters),
so on, until the limit of our inmagination in direction to the macrocosmos.
Later let’s return, a little faster, up to the point where we started and continue our trip in the opposite direction reducing distances of travel by factors of 10 into the
microcosmos.
Observe the constancy of the laws of the universe and think about how much the human race still needs to learn...
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BON VOYAGE!
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Distance to a bunch of leaves, in the garden
100
1 meter
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Start our trip upwards .... We could see the foliage.
101m 10 meters
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At this distance we can see the limits of the forest and the edifications
102m100 meters
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We will pass from meters to kilometers..
Now it is possible to jump with a parachute ...
103m1 km
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The city could be observed but we really can not see the houses
104m10 km
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At this height, the state of Flórida - USA, can be seen..
105m1000 km
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Typical sight from a satellite
106m10,000 km
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The north hemisphere of Earth, and part of South America
107m100,000 km
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The Earth starts looking small...
108m1 million km
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The Earth and the Moon’s órbit in white....
109m1 Gigameter
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Part of the Earth’s Orbit in blue
1010m
10 Gigameters
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1011m100 Gigameters
Órbits of: Venus and Earth...
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Órbits of: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Júpiter.
1012 m
1 Terameters1 trillion meters
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At this height of our trip, we could observe the Solar System and the orbits of the planets
1013m10 Terameters
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1014 m
100 Terameters
The Solar System starts looking small...
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The Sun now is a small star in the middle of thousands of stars...
1015m1 Petameter
1 Quadrillion meters
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At one light-year the little Sun star is very small
1016m1 light-year
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Here we will see nothing in the infinity....
1017m10 light-years
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“Nothing” Only stars and Nebulae...
1018m100 light-years
1 quintiillion meters
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1019m1,000 light-years
At this distance we started travelling the Via-Láctea (Milky Way), our galaxy.
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We continued our travel inside the Via-Láctea.
1020m10,000 light-years
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We started reaching the periphery of the Via-Láctea
1021m100,000 light-years
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At this tremendous distance we could see all the
Via-Láctea & other galáxies too...
1022m1 millión light-years
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From this distance, all the galaxies look small with inmense empty spaces in between.
The same laws are ruling in all bodies of the Universe.
We could continue traveling upwards with our imagination, but now we will return home quickly
1023m - 10 million light-years
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1022m
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1021m
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1020m
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1019m
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1018m
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1017m
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1016m
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1015m
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1014m
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1013m
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1012m
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1011m
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1010m
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109m
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108m
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107m
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106m
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105m
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104m
Questions that come to our minds ...
Who are we? Where are we going? From where did we come from?
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103m
Or... What do we represent in the Universe?
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102mIn this trip “upwards” we went to the power 23 of 10
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101mNow we are going to dig inside of the matter in an inverse trip...
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We arrived at our starting point. We could reach it with our arms...
100m
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Getting closer at 10 cm ...We can delineate the leaves.
10-1m10 Centímeters
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At this distance it is possible to observe the structure of the leaf.
10-2m1 Centímeter
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The cellular structures start showing...
10-3m1 Millímeter
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The cells can be defined.
You could see the union between them.
10-4m100 microns
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Start our trip inside the
cell...
10-5
10 microns
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The nucleus of the cell is visible.
10-6
1 micrón
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Again we changed the messuring unit to adapt to the minúscule size. You can see the chromosomes.
10-7
1.000 Angstroms
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In this micro universe the DNA chain is visible.
10-8
100 Angstroms
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...the chromosómes blocks can be studied.
10-910 Angstroms1 nanometer
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It appears like clouds of electrons...
These are carbon átoms that formed our world.
Notice the resemblance of the Microcosmos with the Macrocosmos...
10-10
1 Angstrom
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In this miniature world we could observe the electrons orbiting the atoms.
10-11
10 Picometers
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An inmense empty space between the nucleous and the electron orbits...
10-12
1 Picometer
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At this incredible and minuscule size we could observe the nuceous of the atom.
10-13
100 Femtometers
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Now we could observe the nucleous of the carbon atom
10-14
10 Femtometers
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Here we are in the field of the scientific imagination, face to face with a proton.
10-15
1 Femtometer
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Examine the ‘quark’ partícules
There is nowhere more to go...
At the limits of current scientific knowledge...
This is the limit of matter...
10-1610 Femtometer
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And now ...Are you the center of the universe?
Are you the special creature of the Creatión?
What is behind those limits?
Are there any limits?
Note that going “downwards” we could only go to the power of minus 16ªof 10 and reached the (known?) limits of matter...
But upwards we went to the power of 23ª of 10 and stopped... But really we could have continued our trip with out limits to our imagination!!!!
... then?
...who says that we are alone in the universe?
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END !
• In depth (Micro) Analysis is important• But so is cursory (Macro) overview• Sometimes it is important to go into depth and analyze
micro bits• Sometimes it is more important to step back and look at
things as a whole – the relatively complete picture.• The is no (theoretical) limit to either the depth of analysis
nor the most complete picture.• Very important in life and academics is the art of
questioning (i.e. knowing when to ask for details and when to look for macro-picture)
• The successful student (like a mystic) does both simultaneously
• END
Important Lesson to learn