The Story of the Buckyball

1. The Story of the Buckyball

2. Our story starts off with stars in space

3. The Sun is a Star – Our Star

4. Our Earth goes round theSun

5. One day many millions of years into the future

6. the Sun will blow up

8. aaaaghhh!!!

9. Ouch! it’s

10. HOT

11. There are lots and lots and lots of stars like our Sun in space

12. In fact there are about ten thousand million million million stars in Space

13. We can write this in numbers as 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000

14. 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 1 followed by 22 noughts (or zeros)

15. We can write 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 as 1022

16. 1022

17. is a very

18. BIG number

19. There are 10 dots here ………,

20. 100 ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………,

21. 1000 ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………,

22. This is only 1000 so…

23. 1022

24. is really

25. really

26. BIG

27. On this screen there are only 1024 x 768 = pixels Less than 1 million < 106

28. On this screen there are only 1024 x 768 = 786432 pixels Less than 1 million < 106

29. Now lets think about something that is very Very small a molecule

30. We are all made out of very tiny molecules

31. Molecules are bundles of very tiny atoms Carbon atoms C Nitrogen atoms N Oxygen atoms O Hydrogen atoms H …mainly

32. The water molecule, H2O, has two Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atom O H H

33. and it is very very very small

34. In a glass of water there are about a million million million million water molecules

35. 1000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 =1024

36. Where did our atoms come from?

37. All your atoms were made a very long time ago inside a star a bit like our Sun

38. That star exploded millions of years ago

43. and blew your atoms into space

44. They floated around in space for millions of years

45. and ended up here TODAY

46. So we all came from outer space We are all aliens

47. We tried to create a bit of a very very hot star in our laboratory

48. lens Sun’s Rays With a magnifying glass and Sunlight you can burn a hole in a piece of wood

49. laser graphite We used a laser instead of the Sun and Graphite like the lead in a pencil

50. clusters of 60 atoms formed