From: mkennedy@shentel.net (Marilyn Kennedy)
Subject: Re: Powers of Ten
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 08:26:58 -0400
along the same line of Powers of Ten....... Just recently I went up to the Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian and saw the latest in the IMAX series of shows, entitled "Cosmic Voyages". The general theme is to take you through a wild and wonderful ride through time,space, and ideas. In one of the sequences you careen outward in circles that start with an acrobat's hula hoop in St. Mark's Square in Venice and expand to embarce the square, the city, the country, the continent, the tiny Earth, our feeble sun and its dinky solar system, our minor Milky Way, the galactic group in which it's submerged, the strings and clumps of galactic groups and supergroups, the island universes, the archipelagoes of island universes, the universes of universes....You zoom out to the imagined edges of the universe whose margins fade forever and ever on the gaze of even the most powerful telescope. It is awesome!It is available for purchase on home video (about $20), though some of the effects of course are lost!!! The film was a joint project by IMAX, Air and Space, NSF, and the Motorola Foundation. This is most appropriate for middle school audience on up. But even with my fourth graders I will use it in segements with some teaching and stops, pause, and plays. It is a 35 minute film which seems to pass in an eyeblink!!! Marilyn Wall John Wayland Elementary