Events

Event Information:

• Tue

  27

  Sep

  2016

  Don Summers Presenting

  4:00 pmLewis Hall 101

  Don Summers Presenting
  Department of Physics and Astronomy
  University of Mississippi

  Powers of Ten

  Powers of Ten illustrates the universe as an arena of both continuity and change, of everyday picnics and cosmic mystery. It begins with a close-up shot of a man sleeping near the lakeside in Chicago, viewed from one meter away. The landscape steadily moves out until it reveals the edge of the known universe. Then, at a rate of 10-to-the-tenth meters per second, the film takes us towards Earth again, continuing back to the sleeping man's hand and eventually down to the level of a carbon atom.