Copyright:
Charles & Ray Eames
(Eames Office)
原文:
How different does the universe look on small, medium, and 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 now been officially posted to YouTube and embedded above. Please click the above arrow to see the nine minute movie for yourself. 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 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, and in a short digital video called The Known Universe created in 2010 for the American Museum of Natural History. Ray and husband Charles Eames, the film’s creators, were known as quite visionary spirits and even invented their own popular chair.
中文翻譯:
在小、中、大尺度上，宇宙的面貌有著顯著的差異。最著名的短科學影片之一《十的幾次方》（Powers of Ten）為我們提供了壯觀的比較。這部影片最初創作於1960年代，現已正式上傳至YouTube並嵌入在上方。影片從芝加哥附近的野餐墊開始，每十秒鐘就放大十倍的面積，直到達到處女座星系團（Virgo Cluster of Galaxies）。然後，影片反轉，每兩秒鐘縮小十倍，最終來到單個質子的內部。
《十的幾次方》的序列其實是基於Kees Boeke於1957年撰寫的書籍《宇宙觀》（Cosmic View），還有一部相似但大部分為動畫的影片《宇宙縮放》（Cosmic Zoom），同樣是在1960年代創建。這種變化的視角既迷人又具教育意義，以至於有部分片段使用更現代的計算機技術重新創建，包括電影《接觸》（Contact）開頭的幾分鐘，還有一部名為《已知宇宙》（The Known Universe）的短數位影片，該片為2010年美國自然歷史博物館創作。影片的創作者Ray和她的丈夫Charles Eames被認為是具有前瞻性的發想者，他們甚至還發明了自己受歡迎的椅子。
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來源:NASA每日圖片
