Particle Physics Wind Chime

Stanford physicist Matt Bellis and developers attending Science Hack Day SF have created a program to render subatomic particle collisions as musical notes. Particle parameters, such as energy or angle, could be mapped onto volume or pitch of a note.

Read the Article in Symmetry Breaking magazine [no longer available or not found] or download the software.

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from Cloud chamber photo/Image credit: Wikimedia Commons/User:Deer*lake

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