image creditMicroscopes turn everyday things like table salt and Velcro into otherworldly landscapes full of massive crystal blocks and fields of black twisted trunks thrust into the air. Besides being an invaluable tool in scientific fields too numerous to mention, microscopes are great for expanding a person's perspective on the world.
It's a well-rounded person who has at least some basic concepts of the scale of the universe - from the smallest quarks through the enormity of the observable universe. Here are some great examples of what some normal everyday things look like really close up.The Presurfer
