视频：十的幂
(原标题: Video: Powers of Ten)
2022-12-04
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宇宙在非常小的尺度上看起来有多大的不同？在非常大的尺度上？这部同时代最著名的科学短片给出了令人惊叹的对比。这部名为《十的力量》（Powers of Ten）的电影最初创作于20世纪60年代，现已被正式发布到YouTube上，并嵌入到这里。从芝加哥附近的野餐毯开始，经过室女座星系团，每隔十秒钟，胶片就会缩小，显示出每边都是十倍大的正方形。然后，这段9分钟的视频倒转，每两秒放大10倍，最终进入一个质子。《十的力量》系列实际上是根据Kees Boeke在1957年出版的《宇宙观》一书改编的，还有一部类似的动画电影《宇宙变焦》，也是在20世纪60年代末创作的。不断变化的视角是如此迷人和有教育意义，以至于使用更现代的计算机技术重新制作了部分内容，包括电影《超时空接触》的前几分钟。雷和他的丈夫查尔斯·埃姆斯是这部电影的主创，他们以富有远见著称，甚至发明了他们自己的流行椅子。
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How different does the universe look on very small scales? On very large scales? The most famous short science film of its generation gives breathtaking comparisons. That film, Powers of Ten, originally created in the 1960s, has been officially posted to YouTube and embedded here. From a picnic blanket near Chicago out past the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies, every ten seconds the film zooms out to show a square a factor of ten times larger on each side. The 9-minute video then reverses, zooming back in a factor of ten every two seconds and ends up inside a single proton. The Powers of Ten sequence is actually based on the book Cosmic View by Kees Boeke in 1957, as is a similar but mostly animated film Cosmic Zoom that was also created in the late 1960s. The changing perspectives are so enthralling and educational that sections have been recreated using more modern computerized techniques, including the first few minutes of the movie Contact. Ray and husband Charles Eames, the film's creators, were known as quite visionary spirits and even invented their own popular chair.
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