Maine Solar System Model
Jeff Patterson Conquers the Solar System.
The model consists of markers with hand-painted globes spaced out across forty miles of Maine countryside.
…At this scale one mile equals one AU, and the speed of light is 7 MPH. A brisk walk becomes relativistic, incurring sizable time dialation. Even the lowest speed limit is several magnitudes into the transluminal. It is also staggering to realize that Alpha Centauri would be about as far as the moon.
The Sun is so large it cannot be represented as a globe; they had to settle for an equatorial arc three stories tall.
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