Re: Just how much can we magnigy?

From: Andy Resnick (andy.resnick_at_op.case.edu)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:35:07 -0500

justbeats wrote:

>>The ultimate zoom microscope which you asked about is
>>the particle accelerator.
>
>
> Hang on a minnit! Since we're mixing meta and "hard" physics now;
> surely the universe as a whole is the ULTIMATE zoom scope!? Started as
> a singularity and now 15bn ly across, and counting.

Not exactly:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/expanding_universe.html 

-- 
Andrew Resnick, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Case Western Reserve University

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