Powers of Ten
Introduction
When I was in college (1973 - 1978) two classes that profounded affected me were astronomy and cosmology. As a person of faith I have always believed that science ultimately reveals God’s amazing design in everything. It was during my college years that most cosmologists accepted the Big Bang, the theory that the universe had a beginning. This shift in the scientific understanding of the origins of universe mirrored Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”, where God revealed creation had both a beginning and He was the Creator. The aetheistic alternative is that “nothing” created “everything” requires a far greater faith than the biblical worldview.
The 1997 “Powers of Ten” Video I Saw in College
@davidabart (3 years ago)
I first watched this at the Air and Space Smithsonian in Washington DC probably about 30 years ago and was so blown away I watched it two more times. Even now I still get a kick out of it. The Morgan Freeman version is a bit updated and lots of fun too but this ages well and is a tribute to the guys who produced it. Watch it sometimes if you think you're a big shot; it helps to remember that you are a tiny speck in a virtually limitless universe. And yet if you are a believer you know that you are so much more than that!
The Second Powers of Ten Video (1996)
Narrated by Morgan Freeman
@sebastiancalderone5529 (8 months ago)
Simply amazing video. "We enter an area of vast inner space." That's one of the most amazing revelations. We think of space as a vast void of emptiness, but so is solid, dense matter, in actuality. If we could remove all the space making up all the atoms that make up the Empire State building (all the steel, concrete, glass, electrical wiring, etc), it would be about the size of a grain of rice. If we did the same for the desk you're sitting at, you would need a tunneling electron microscope to see it. That's why, the electro magnetic force is the strongest, most important force in the universe (gravity, of course, is not a force at all). Without it, you could put your hand through a solid object...but then again, your hand wouldn't appear as a solid object at all.