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Distance to a bunch of leaves in the garden meter

Starting our trip upwards.... We can see the foliage meters

At this distance we can see the limits of the forest and the edifications meters

We will pass from meters to kilometers..Now it is possible to jump with a parachute km

The city could be observed but we really can’t see the houses km

At this height, the state of Flórida - USA, is just coming into view km

Typical sight from a satellite ,000 km

The northern hemisphere of Earth, and part of South America ,000 km

The Earth starts looking small ,000 km

The Earth and the Moon’s orbit in white Million km

Part of the Earth’s Orbit in blue Million km

Million km Orbits of Venus, Mars and Earth...

Orbits of: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Júpiter Billion km

At this height of our trip, we could observe the Solar System and the orbits of the planets Billion km

Billion km The Solar System starts looking small...

The Sun now is a small star in the middle of thousands of stars Trillion km

At one light-year the little Sun star is very small light-year How Long is a Light-Year? The light-year is a measure of distance, not time. It is the distance that a beam of light travels in one year.

Here we will see nothing in the infinity light-years

“Nothing” Only stars and Nebulae light-years

,000 light-years At this distance we are travelling in the Milky Way, our galaxy.

We continue our travel inside the Milky Way ,000 light-years

We begin reaching the periphery of the Milky Way) ,000 light-years

At this tremendous distance we can see the entire Milky Way and other galaxies as well Million light-years

Million light-years Million light-years. Our galaxy is indistinguishable from the other galaxies in our Local Group. It would take light over 10 million years to travel across this image.

10 26 – 1billion light-years Each of the points is a galaxy like ours. They clump together in 'superclusters' around great voids which can be 150 million light years across.

The observable Universe is 27 Billion light-years in diameter Surveys of galaxies reveal a web-like or honeycomb structure to the Universe Great walls and filaments of matter surrounding voids containing no galaxies Probably 100 billion galaxies in the Universe Computer Simulation

27 Billion light-years in diameter

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We arrive at our starting point. In this trip “upwards” we went to the power of 26 of 10 Now we are going to dig inside of matter in a reverse (inverse) trip

Getting closer at 10 cm...We can delineate the leaves Centímeters

At this distance it is possible to observe the structure of the leaf Centímeter

The cellular structures begin to show Millímeter

The cells can be delineated. You can see the union between them microns

Starting our trip inside the cell microns

The nucleus of the cell is visible micrón

Again we changed the measuring unit to adapt to the miniscule size. You can see the chromosomes Nanometers

In this micro universe the DNA chain is visible Nanometers

...the chromosome blocks can be observed Nanometer

It appears like clouds of electrons... These are carbon atoms that formed our world Angstrom

Femtómeters At this incredible and minuscule size we could observe the nucleus of the atom.

Now we could observe the nucleus of the carbon atom Femtómeters

Here we are in the field of the scientific imagination, face to face with a proton Femtómeter

Examine the ‘quark’ partícules There is nowhere further to go... We are at the limits of current scientific knowledge

Distances in space are quantized in units of the Planck length. According to string theory, the length of strings of which all matter is built is likely to be small multiples of the Planck length. 1,6 X Planck length

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