Scale

When I began my studies in vision (computer vision and animal vision) I learned of techniques in searching images that were based on developing a resolution pyramid. Each layer down in the pyramid contains more detail and has four times the pixels. This was an introduction to scale.

I then began looking at the universe as an exorcise in looking at things at the right scale. When one looks at very small scales, micro biology level or at the subatomic level, the universe becomes unbelievable. And when looking at the grand scale, the very macro level of the starts and star systems, again things become unbelievable. Stunning.

However on the level of the world to which we have become accustomed, things look ho-hum.

This notion in scale applies to time as well as to space. Do plants act? Maybe not on our time scale. Look at them over a period of years rather than milliseconds and they do infact move and act.

What have we missed due to our habit of scale?