SCIart - the uncertainty principle in measuring D Meson

The Uncertainty Principle in Measuring D Meson

SCI art Workshop - {in}visible

This 3d animation is for the Science Art Workshop hosted by Ismo Vuorela in the University of Lapland in 2022 December.

My idea is that I would make a short infinite cyclic animation video depicting the similarity between the microscopic world and the macroscopic world. I started from the picture of the particle trail in the bubble chamber from BEBC that was showed in class, which looks like the pattern of leaves and branches growing on a tree.

I plan to make one model of a tree (which will have the same skeleton as the particle trail) growing from the ground from zero and having flourishing branches and leaves according to the position of the trail in the picture and then vanishing to blank again. This part should have a lively atmosphere like the real process of plants growing.

Background music was made by me in GarageBand.

Then after I watched the history of quantum theory, I further developed cyclic animation. There is a principle called the uncertainty principle, which describes how the object of the quantum interacts with the macroscopic world apparatus. That is, if you want to understand the nature of the microscopic world, you need to intervene through some macroscopic means and instruments, but then there will be interference with the microscopic world.

Quoted from my note:

“The measurement of position and momentum alone cannot be done with zero error. For example, if you want to measure the position of an electron, you have to launch a beam of electromagnetic waves, and then calculate the position of the electron by bouncing back from the electromagnetic waves, but the electron is very light, the electromagnetic waves will hit and run the electron, the momentum of the electron is already inaccurate. If you want to measure the position to infinite precision, you have to keep increasing the frequency of electromagnetic waves, but the higher the energy of electromagnetic waves, the farther the electrons will be beaten, the more inaccurate the momentum.”

I decided to make another video of an eye to represent the macroscopic world apparatus, which can affect the functioning of the particles in the microscopic world. Every time the eye is open, the tree vanishes accordingly. When the eye is closed, the tree starts to grow again.

And I wanted to distinguish the idle state (not being intervened by macroscopic apparatus) of the particle tree and the alert state (being measured by macroscopic apparatus), so I planned to add some other meson trails to overlay the alert state, which also acts differently (irritatedly/hysterically/…) when being watched/measured. The eye animates in a rigid and logical yet somehow ruthless way.