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For example, Rupert Riedl, via Gerhard Medicus’s powerpoint: Understandably, the hierarchy in my diagram is similar to that in others. These 7 biological levels are the same ones as given in the ‘Hierarchical Mechanical Mind’ for the biopsychosocial ‘Period Table of the Human Sciences’ (extending beyond the ‘Period Table of the Human Sciences’ to encroach upon the Humanities), as advocated by Gerhard Medicus. I have attempted to give labels to each level corresponding to the study discipline at that level, those being: immediate family of organisms (cyan), and.organisms (green, with humans particularly in mind),.Molecular Biology is at the lowest level (orange-R6 to E14), then going up through.Large atoms then take us into the emergence of life and the realm of Biology: More statistical mechanics, namely thermodynamics, then accounts for behavior up to the scale of large stars, 100 times larger than the Sun (dark-orange-E14). That is, Chemistry emerges (dark-orange-S6), starting at a larger scale of time and space. Quantum mechanics explains how the behavior of fundamental particles (quarks, leptons and bosons) leads to the emergence of the structure of atoms and how they bond. To explain the picture, let’s start with the red Physics rectangle. The z axis (1 metre, 1 second), going from red-L10 to grey-E10 represents an increase in complexity. The ‘origin’ of the chart (location green-H10) is at the reference point of:Īt which a human (such as the girl in the book) is located. The precise choice of the limits given here is arguable and the same applies for the other colored layers in the graphic, in what follows. At the other end of the scale, extending beyond the current age and size of the Universe is nonsensical if you subscribe to the ‘heat death’ fate of the universe rather than a ‘Big Crunch’. The lower limits are much larger than the fundamental smallest possible units – Planck units – of 10 -35s and 10 -43s but extending that far wouldn’t provide any more illumination.
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Overall, the red surface represents scales of time and space from 10 -18m (quarks, leptons and bosons) and 10 -24 seconds to 10 27m and 10 18s (the size and age of the Universe). So the square at the very bottom (location red-Z3) represents a shift in space from 10 -18 metres to 10 -17m when heading one square towards the top-left and represents a shift in time from 10 -24 seconds to 10 -23s heading one square towards the top-right. A grid is provided so that I can refer to regions by grid reference.Įach square shows an increase of one order of magnitude in time and space. My graphic below attempts to show both space and time, and additionally showing ‘ complexity’ on a third axis, going up from Physics, through Biology up to human culture. Instead, it shows a range of biology, from viruses up to a whale. His book could have restricted itself to plain physics, with the reference point being a rock, say, rather than the girl, but this would have been far less interesting. … and Timeīoeke’s book shows the vastness of scales of space an equivalent book that showed the vastness of time scales would be more difficult.
#Cosmic view universe in 40 jumps pdf
It then returns to the girl and the scaling goes in the other direction, focusing in on her hand (10cm) to see a mosquito (1cm), a water mite (1mm), bacteria (100μm), Smallpox virus (10μm), bacteriophage (1μm), flagellum (100nm), salt crystal (10nm) and atoms (1Å = 1 Angstrom = 10 -10m) to finally stop at the nucleus of a Sodium atom (10 -13m).Īll 40 stages are shown in my collation above but each image can bee seen fully in the PDF of the book. It continues page by page, bringing in the Moon, the whole of the Solar System and on to the Milky Way galaxy and every galaxy in the Universe (10 25m). This zooming out continues page by page, to show the fields and houses around the school (100m), in the village of Bilthoven (1km), in the region around the city of Utrecht (10km) in the Netherlands (100km), within Europe (1000km) on planet Earth (10,000km). It then zooms out by a factor of 10 to show her in the courtyard of Boeke’s school (incongruously showing a whale lying on its side!), jumping from objects at a human scale (1 1 metre) to 10 metres. The book starts with a picture of a girl on a chair with a cat on her lap.
In his 1957 book ‘Cosmic View : The Universe in 40 Jumps’, the Dutch educator Kees Boeke demonstrated the vastness of scale in the Universe.