Friday, October 30, 2015

Tooth Zoom

I came across a mind-bending animation- which zooms into the surface of a tooth at increasing degrees of magnification, down to the atomic scale:



This virtual journey through scale demonstrates the fractal nature of reality.

The world is not a set of discreet levels- such as the cosmic, human, microscopic & atomic scales. Reality is a non-stop continuum of infinitely intricate detail.

I also found a video version of it on YouTube:


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