Tiny world
For Hanukkah, Dave got me a sweet little toy, a Digital Blue USB microscope. This thing is a lot of fun to play with; looking at ordinary things magnified 200 times never gets old. Flintstones vitamins turn into enormous granite mountains, household dust looks like a pile of rocks and sticks, and a smooth piece of plastic looks like the surface of the moon. Here are a few examples:
(click on any of these to see them at full size)
The surface of a crisp new 20 dollar bill. Look at the yellow embedded fibers.
My wedding ring. It looks so smooth and shiny to the naked eye.
Kansas drivers' license. What you are seeing here are two tiny horses, part of the Kansas state seal, which is in microscopic size on the back of the license, to prevent countefeiting.
For Hanukkah, Dave got me a sweet little toy, a Digital Blue USB microscope. This thing is a lot of fun to play with; looking at ordinary things magnified 200 times never gets old. Flintstones vitamins turn into enormous granite mountains, household dust looks like a pile of rocks and sticks, and a smooth piece of plastic looks like the surface of the moon. Here are a few examples:
(click on any of these to see them at full size)
The surface of a crisp new 20 dollar bill. Look at the yellow embedded fibers.
My wedding ring. It looks so smooth and shiny to the naked eye.
Kansas drivers' license. What you are seeing here are two tiny horses, part of the Kansas state seal, which is in microscopic size on the back of the license, to prevent countefeiting.
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