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66 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I OCTOBER 2022 scope (1990), showing light emitted from mat- ter existing millions of light years away. But the image data lacks present, real-time infor- mation on the original matter. e data that's been collected in the images is obsolete by mil- lions of years. I can see how the JWST images are newsworthy and marketable. Publishing the images proving that nebulas and exoplan- ets existed (past tense) is rocking the scien- tific world. But for me, new information about distant, million-year-old things are of little value unless I can tangibly understand them and think of a useful application for them. Heck, tiny 01005 chip component packages have been around for only a few short years, and I still have not found a use for them in a PCB design layout due to limited processing capability. A PCB Concept That Lacks Manufacturing Capability I know there are PCB designer scientists in the electronics industry working on design standards and ways to present ultra-HDI to our industry stakeholders in a tangible format. I salute them Telescope Images Got Me Thinking As many of us gaze upon the images taken recently by the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST), there is a great deal of discussion regarding the attributes of scale, definition, and clarity. Some excited scientists point out that these new images let us see much deeper into space than ever before. Others are forming new hypotheses about what the curious images reveal regarding the origins of matter form- ing each of the galaxies. Most scientists, how- ever, remain apathetic and detached from the images because they don't reveal much about their areas of subject matter expertise. To give our readers an idea of the scale these images are missing, I suggest viewing a 1977 short film called "Powers of Ten," 1 produced by Charles and Ray Eames. It does an outstanding job of zooming out, then zooming back into the universe by adding an additional zero to each view, scaling to the power of 10, and help- ing us to understand the relative size of things. I reference this film oen around campfire dis- cussions on metaphysics, the meaning of life, and our place in the universe as PCB designers. e film starts from an elevation of one meter over a park in Chicago. e first scene depicts a couple enjoying a picnic on a blanket. is view represents the common scale of our "neighbor- hood" (10 to the 0) at which average folks live and work. In the next scene, we zoom away from the blanket by a power of 10 every 10 sec- onds. e camera shot begins to zoom out so we can see a 10-meter wide (10 to the 1) square of grass on which the couple's blanket rests. At 100 meters out (10 to the 2), the couple disap- pears. e journey continues out to a dark and "lonely scene" at 10 to the 24 meters out—the equivalent span of 100 million light years— until quickly plunging back to the Chicago park to travel in the opposite direction of scale. As I viewed the JWST images, which were shared in the news and on social media, I must say that I thought they were interesting—to a point. Yes, these images are clearer than those captured years ago by the Hubble Space Tele- Figure 1: Image of distant galaxies from the James Webb Telescope.