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ROUTE

The first part of this unit invites the visitor to change his reference scale. Confronted to unusually proportioned objects, the visitor is forced to put his everyday environment into perspective, to question his references and to become aware of the infinitely small scale of nanometric elements. The discovery of this scale difference will put him into the “Nanoworld” scale.

In the second part, he will discover the strange and restricting physics “laws”, which rule atoms going from a “Newtonian” universe to an extremely astonishing quantum universe.

Crossing a line of « hair » the visitor is taken to the millimetre scale : like an insect. He will also become conscious of the scale differences by observing nanometric objects enlarged up to our scale ! This immersion is a sensory travel into the atomic world. Then, different animations will enable him to understand the laws ruling nanomatric elements and the observation techniques developed to study this scale.