“Visualizing the Proton” through animation...

[Macavity]

Before all this "Higgs Boson & Standard Model (Violation)" stuff,
there was/is fun stuff re. Proton Struture (Quarks, Gluons etc.)! 😎

The above is sometimes hard to visualize (sic)... Terms can be
obscure... High Q-squared? Bjorken-X (An Icelandic Rapper?) 🤔

Maybe if we think of (Astro) Resolution and Shutter Speed?!? 🥳
https://news.mit.edu/2022/visualizing-proton-through-animation-film-0425
 

 

Edited May 6, 2022 by Macavity

[The Admiral]

Still hard to visualize . Needs a very clear head and some thought, neither of which I have at the moment. I need to slow the information delivery down a bit for my brain! Still, the information is there for the taking. Thanks for posting.

Ian

[Macavity]

45 minutes ago, The Admiral said:

Still hard to visualize . Needs a very clear head and some thought, neither of which I have at the moment.

😅 ME TOO... in perpetuity? A typical *Particle Physics* PLOT shows "Bumps"...
These impress even a casual observer? "Something has been discovered"! 😎



The "PINK bit" is the Higgs! The Blue bit, Z0 "intermediate vector bosons". 🤫
But the above can be "a bit boring" too? lol! And "hard to understand" for
many! (Even initiates - on Good Day). But ya can't beat a good animation? 🥳

Edited May 6, 2022 by Macavity

[The Admiral]

3 minutes ago, Macavity said:

BUT you can't beat a good animation?

Agree, just so long as it helps one's understanding. It looks like a good animation, but it hasn't, so far, clarified much

Ian

[Macavity]

23 minutes ago, The Admiral said:

It looks like a good animation, but it hasn't, so far, clarified much

Some of the more "esoteric" discussons on this sub-forum baffle me! 😅
But I hope that we "confused.com" are not discouraged from trying...

[saac]

I find visualisations like this both fascinating and frustrating.  My first reaction is generally "wow that's cool" but then I'm left asking "so what exactly is it that I'm seeing here".   A good example is IBM's ATOM Boy video.  It's actually quite old now maybe 10 years or so, but it provides one of the most beguiling visualisations of the atom.  The video itself and the accompanying " how they made it" are really worth watching.  Indeed, the second video explaining how they did it is necessary to make sense of the visualisation.  The second that I recall was one where a laser pulse is visualised by a super super x 10 a lot slo-mo camera!  Again I'm left asking so what exactly am I seeing here  - is that really the wave front !!    I'm just glad that we have some very clever people around that can bring us a glimpse of their understanding. 

Jim

IBM ATOM Boy

IBM Making The World's Smallest Movie

Laser Pulse - Trillion Frames Per Second

 

Edited May 6, 2022 by saac

[Macavity]

I see someone commented that a Lorenz-contracted Proton
was still a sphere (not a disk). I'd have to think about that! 😅

The idea most mass of the proton/neutron is down to motion
and confinement of (sea) quarks and Gluons is important. 😏
Sometimes less clear because the graph is (part) scaled...



Visualisation is fun. I recently learned e.g. non-spherical
nuclei consist of geometrically packed protons/neutrons... 😎
https://energywavetheory.com/atoms/nucleus-structure/
This may not be the definitive reference, but...

 

 

Edited May 8, 2022 by Macavity