Visualizing the Proton

The proton has almost universally been visualized as a billiard ball with quark and gluon billiard ball constituents. Yet, we now know that this visualization is entirely wrong. Quarks and gluons can spin, have linear and circular motion, and can appear and disappear. How can this complex and seemingly “impossible” world be visualized? To answer this question, artists and scientists have collaborated to depict the subatomic world in a new way with an innovative animation that conveys the current understanding of the structure of the proton in terms of its fundamental constituents. This explanatory video created by MIT Professor Richard Milner and physicist Rolf Ent at Jefferson Lab provides an overview of the project and the physics behind it, presenting the animations that have resulted from the collaboration.

Read more here: http://mitsha.re/sjkv50Iy82g
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The Visualizing the Proton Project is presented by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology and Jefferson Lab.

The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) creates new opportunities for art, science and technology to thrive as interrelated, mutually informing modes of exploration, knowledge and discovery. CAST’s multidisciplinary platform presents performing and visual arts programs, supports research projects for artists working with science and engineering labs, and sponsors symposia, classes, workshops, design studios, lectures and publications.

The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, or Jefferson Lab, is managed and operated for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC.

DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

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