Long time readers of this blog know that I am a sucker for a good visualization of the scale the universe, from the largest of objects to the tiniest (example, example, example). The essential visualization remains Ray and Charles Eames’ Powers of Ten, but it’s always fun to see a new way to look at scale. Here a new animation of what it would be like to repeatedly shrink by a factor of 1000. What’s fun here is that the video gets into the physics you’d encounter, from the increasing viscosity of the air to the battering you’d take from Brownian motion. Happy Friday, see you in the quantum realm.

David Crotty

David Crotty

David Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.

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