Translator: Joseph Geni
Reviewer: Morton Bast
So I want to talk a little bit about seeing the world
from a totally unique point of view,
and this world I'm going to talk about is the micro world.
I've found, after doing this for many, many years,
that there's a magical world behind reality.
And that can be seen directly through a microscope,
and I'm going to show you some of this today.
So let's start off looking at something rather not-so-small,
something that we can see with our naked eye,
and that's a bee. So when you look at this bee,
it's about this size here, it's about a centimeter.
But to really see the details of the bee, and really
appreciate what it is, you have to look a little bit closer.
So that's just the eye of the bee with a microscope,
and now all of a sudden you can see that the bee has
thousands of individual eyes called ommatidia,
and they actually have sensory hairs in their eyes
so they know when they're right up close to something,
because they can't see in stereo.
As we go smaller, here is a human hair.