Scale of Universe

"We're probably not in the center of the universe"<p>The way I understood things, there is no center of the universe. Or equivalently, all points in the universe have a view such that it appears that you are in the center of the universe. The universe is spacetime itself, and the idea of a center requires an idea of space outside of spacetime, no?

Scale of Universe Enhanced is the sequel and even better: <a href="http://images.4channel.org/f/src/589217_scale_of_universe_enhanced.swf" rel="nofollow">http://images.4channel.org/f/src/589217_scale_of_universe_en...</a>

Posted here many many times already:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1835460" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1835460</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1953919" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1953919</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1261816" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1261816</a>

I'd love to see a case study or profile of the creation of this. Over the last 10 years and in multiple communities, I've seen the underlying Flash animation to this appear and do well every single time. It must be one of the most seen Flash animations ever, yet it continues to do well every time despite being very simply produced.

On topic of scales. <a href="http://blog.visual.ly/12-visualizations-that-will-change-the-way-you-view-scale-in-your-world/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.visual.ly/12-visualizations-that-will-change-the...</a>

Sadly their MySQL server went down, and no one took the time to configure PHP correctly :(<p>&#62; Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 111 in /home/primax/public_html/dbcon.php on line 14 Could not connect database

Main link is broken right now. Alt link that I think is the same thing (based on comments) <a href="http://www.scaleoftheuniverse.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.scaleoftheuniverse.com/</a>

This really needs forward and reverse play buttons to allow you just sit and try and comprehend what is zooming before your eyes.

Wow, I saw this over 2 years ago. Whoever made this site took the original SWF and put it on this domain behind ads to make money.<p>Anyway, its still very cool at any rate. I wish someone created a CGI version of this thats more realistic

Great piece - just wish I could control the audio volume.<p>Curious if HTML5 can do this yet...