Published 2 years ago

Visualizing the proton through animation and film

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Visualizing the Proton is an original animation of the proton intended for use in high school classrooms. MIT professor of physics Richard Milner, Jefferson Laboratory physicists Rolf Ent and Rik Yoshida, MIT documentary filmmakers Chris Boebel and Joe McMaster, and Sputnik Animation's James LaPlante have teamed up to depict the subatomic world.

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Phys.org

Visualizing the proton through animation and film

Try to picture a proton—the minute, positively charged particle within an atomic nucleus—and you may imagine a familiar, textbook diagram: a bundle of billiard balls representing quarks and gluons. From the solid sphere model first proposed by John Dalton in 1803 to the quantum model put forward by Erwin Schrödinger in 1926, there is a storied timeline of physicists trying to visualize the invisible.

2 years ago·United Kingdom

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“Visualizing the Proton” through animation and film

An educational animation and documentary film, "Visualizing the Proton," depicts the subatomic world in a new way. The work is a collaboration between MIT, Jefferson Laboratory, and Sputnik Animation.

2 years ago·Cambridge, United States

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