A single atom.
A new sense of scale.
Give a hydrogen nucleus a size you can imagine, then place it on the map. Watch its characteristic atomic scale spread across the landscape. A familiar distance becomes a way into the structure of matter.
Gold nucleus is draggable. The blue marker is a scale cue constrained to the Bohr-radius circle.
Preparing the atom view…
The astonishing ratio
One linear scale, from femtometers to miles.
Hydrogen · ground-state scale study
If the nucleus were represented by the tiny tick at left, the electron's characteristic scale would lie roughly nucleus-diameters away. The visual bar is compressed enormously so it can fit on screen.
The nucleus is here.
How far does its scale reach?
One Atom makes a relationship tangible: the enormous difference between a nucleus and an atom’s characteristic size. The blue cue marks a distance. The soft cloud suggests a probability distribution that has no sharp outer edge.
A field of possibility.
Light spread across a landscape offers a way to encounter the electron’s probability field. These three studies explore how that idea might become a place to pause, look, and wonder.
