Cosmic Voyage IMAX has an excellent simulation/demonstration of the power of exponential numbers. Morgan Freedman's narration starts with a 1 meter circle, a hoola hoop, and then keeps expanding 10 times the previous size. 13 steps later we pass our solar system. 23 steps out and we are at the outer limits of space. Then, WHAM! the viewer gets to travel warp speed back to Earth, to the Netherlands, a river bed, and a drop of water. And now it’s magnification times 10 -- from single cell organisms, to their DNA, to individual atoms comprised of protons and quarks...

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While the power of ten can take us to the outer reaches of the universe in less than a couple dozen steps, TIME is more linear...