Powers of Ten™ (1977)
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The Eames Office's 1977 film Powers of Ten starts at a picnic in Chicago and zooms out by a factor of ten every ten seconds to the edge of the universe. It then zooms inward to a proton in a carbon atom.
Why HN recommends it: HN commenters recommend it as the classic visualization for building intuition about scale, and it comes up whenever a thread concerns scale or size comparisons.
“a classic video that demonstrates the scale of the Universe from the micro to the macro perspectives” Read on HN ↗