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Monday, January 22, 2007

In 'forty jumps,' scientists model scales of quarks to quasars

In 'forty jumps,' scientists model scales of quarks to quasars: "Comprehending the smallness of a quark or the hugeness of the observable universe is a challenge that most of us find difficult, yet captivating. Placing vastly different scales side by side to explore their relationship amounts to a task not even computers have mastered efficiently. Recently, scientists Chi-Wing (Philip) Fu and Andrew Hanson have developed a visualization system of the universe that may help scientists, educators and film viewers better understand size on a journey through the universe."

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