The Powers of Ten journey shown by this exhibition involves astronomy, biology, design, particle physics, and much more, but though it concerns all of these, ultimately it is about scale .
Scale is a remarkably useful and powerful way to organise information and experience.
The purpose of this exhibition is to give you a sense of that power and meaning. The Powers of Ten journey in this room is quite schematic and direct. As you move to the left, each image shows a progressively smaller order of magnitude, zooming you inexorably down to the subatomic scale. We hope this conveys some sense of the marvellous relationships between different orders of magnitude and how truly interconnected the realms of big and small really are. To think about the relative size of things is to gain a sense of perspective on the world.