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What is the name of this TV show where you zoom out to see the universe and then zoom down to the atomic level?
November 10, 2008 2:57 PM   RSS feed for this thread Subscribe

What is the name of this science TV program where you are continually zooming out farther and farther from the Earth, and then zooming in to the microscopic level in someone's skin cell, while a man narrates?

A few years ago I saw this program, maybe on PBS, where every ten seconds the speed of zoom would increase by an order of magnitude, and you see more and more of the universe, and then after zooming out a while, you would reverse direction, zooming in-- eventually into a cell and every ten seconds the speed would decrease by an order of magnitude as you get smaller and smaller into atoms and so on.

It was a really fascinating show and I wish I could figure out the name of it. Surely someone out there knows exactly what it is!
posted by kosmonaut to media & arts (10 comments total) 4 users marked this as a favorite
Powers of Ten
posted by advicepig at 3:04 PM on November 10, 2008


Powers of Ten?
posted by substars at 3:04 PM on November 10, 2008


It's on youtube here.
posted by kuujjuarapik at 3:05 PM on November 10, 2008


You got it folks... I knew you'd be all over this one! Thanks!
posted by kosmonaut at 3:07 PM on November 10, 2008


Hijacking, but... who did the music?
posted by softsantear at 3:22 PM on November 10, 2008


@softsantear: "Music Composed and Performed by Elmer Bernstein"
posted by bradly at 3:27 PM on November 10, 2008


Okay, that is fucking cool.
posted by disillusioned at 4:15 PM on November 10, 2008


Owes much to a 1968 film called Cosmic Zoom, created by Eva Szasz for Canada's National Film Board.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 5:02 PM on November 10, 2008


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kbNSdRLcCc&feature=related
posted by Redhush at 5:03 PM on November 10, 2008


I see in your profile it says you're in NY. The Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History has an exhibit of what you just described: the Scales of the Universe exhibit. It's really cool, you might wanna check it out :)
posted by asras at 8:31 PM on November 10, 2008


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