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Hydrogen atom with spin
Graphic showing a hydrogen atom with spin representing an orbital mixture of two probability waves, produced as part of the "Multimodal Representation of Quantum Mechanics: The Hydrogren Atom" project at the AlloSphere, one of the largest immersive scientific instruments in the world.
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The National Science Foundation-supported AlloSphere is located at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) building at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The AlloSphere takes scientific data that is too small to see and hear and visually and sonically magnifies it to a human scale so researchers can better analyze the data and find new patterns. Over 20 researchers can stand in the center of the sphere and be collectively immersed in multi-dimensional information. The AlloSphere infrastructure was completed in March 2007 and it is a key part of the Digital Media Center located within the CNSI.
Applications for the AlloSphere include audiovisual technologies, abstract arts and art entertainment, "green" technology, computers and networking, education, nanotechnology, physics, materials science, geography and remote sensing, human perception, behavior and cognition, and medicine and telemedicine.
To learn more about the AlloSphere, see the NSF Discovery story The AlloSphere Offers an Interactive Experience of Nano-sized Worlds. Or visit the AlloSphere website.
The AlloSphere research pictured in this series of images was supported by NSF grants IIS 1047678, CNS 0855279, and CNS 0821858. (Date of Image: 2007-2011)
Credit: Professor JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Media Arts and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara; Professor Luca Peliti, University of Naples, Italy; Lance Putnam, Media Arts and Technology, UCSB
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