The Powers of Ten in Time

这个以录像带为基础的展览名为《时间中的十次方》（Powers of Ten in Time），将让博物馆的参观者探索看不见的自然变化世界——那些发生得太快或太慢而无法察觉的事件。通过使用触摸屏和交互式软件，用户实际上可以加速或减慢时间，以见证超出人类时间感知极限的变化。游客将看到火灾后恢复的森林、因侵蚀而破碎的土墙、潮汐进进出出、复杂机械的复杂运动以及分子碰撞和反应产生火灾等场景。这些光碟将包含100多个短片片段，描绘各种各样的现象。我们将使用延时镜头，慢动作剪辑和动画来显示从3亿飞秒到飞秒的时间段内发生的变化。博物馆的参观者不仅可以按照自己的节奏和顺序观看这些视频片段，还可以通过屏幕上的文字和图形解释了解更多关于这些现象的信息。该项目的目标是通过引人入胜的摄影片段吸引博物馆游客，用补充的文字和图形解释所显示的现象，并刺激他们以一种新的方式看待世界-不仅用他们的眼睛，而且用他们的思想和想象力。

The videodisc-based exhibit, the Powers of Ten in Time, will allow museum visitors to explore the unseen world of natural change - events that occur too quickly or too slowly to be perceived. Through the use of a touch screen and interactive software, users will be able to, in effect, speed up or slow down timeto witness changes that lie outside of the limits of human time perception. Visitors will see scenes such as a forest recovering after a fire, a wall of earth crumbling from erosion, tides coming in and out, the intricate motions of complex machinery and molecules colliding and reacting to produce fire. The videodiscs will contain more than 100 short video segments depicting a wide range of phenomena. We will use time-lapse footage, slow-motion clips and animations to show changes occurring over time periods form 300,000,000 to femtoseconds. Not only will museum visitors be able to watch these video segments at their own pace and in order they choose, they will also be able to learn more about such phenomena through on- screen textual and graphical explanations. The goal of the project is to engage museum visitors with captivating photographic segments, explain the phenomena shown with supplemental text and graphics, and stimulate them to look at the world in a new way - not just with their eyes, but with their minds and imaginations.