Zoom from the Outside Universe to the Universe Within

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This amazing video takes us on a fantastic journey from the outer universe down to the earth, then into a leaf and on into submolecular structures, for a look at quarks that make up atoms.

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Excellent vid...who was that on guitar by the way..