perspective

In the book zoom, by Istvan banyai, an object is shown zoomed very close in, and as it goes out what you think of it changes greatly. I made several inferences, which after a short while turned out to be correct. It deals with perspective in the way that by looking at something differently, your opinion about it changes. As he zoomed out, I realized how tiny that once gigantic thing was.

Many times in my life, I realized that from a different perspective, things look very different. When I was very small, I thought that 3 years was as long as it took for all of history, but where I am now, I realize that 3 years aren't as huge a time frame as I thought, and one hundred isn't that monumentally huge of a number.If I put myself in the shoes of another person, my view on things would change. In this years presidential running, if a McCain voter thought of the race as an obama supporter thought of it, he might see some points and issues differently.

Scientists need to view alot of information to do thier job, and perspective is important for that to know on all scales the information about the object. A botanist might be more interested in studying the cells and genes of the plant versus just the plant. An artist might be more interested in the small writing he put on a penny, rather than the penny itself. It would be very helpful in astronomy to have both ends of perspective when studying planets, to know its general shape and spin or axis, or to know what its soil and surface are like.