The power of images to represent the unseeable: stunning
visualizations of science, from the microscopic to the incredibly
vast.
We live among patterns of delicate beauty and exquisite chaos that our
eyes can't detect; we are surrounded by invisible particles and shifting
fields of matter that permeate all of space. Our very cells are
intricate molecular machines, and the story of our origins stretches
back through an unimaginable amount of time. How can we see the richness
of what lies beyond our sensory perception? Scientists have developed
visualization tools that can make the invisible visible. This
bountifully illustrated book demonstrates the power of images to
represent the unseeable, offering stunning visualizations of science
that range from the microscopic to the incredibly vast.
With more than 200 color images and an engaging text by leading science
writer Jack Challoner, Seeing Science explains and illustrates the
techniques by which scientists create visualizations of their
discoveries. We see the first detection of a black hole as represented
by an image from an Xray telescope, get a direct view of DNA through an
electron microscope, and much more. Visualizations are also used to make
sense of an avalanche of data--concisely presenting information from the
20,000 or so human genes, for example. Scientists represent complex
theories in computer models, which take on a curious beauty of their
own. And scientists and artists collaborate to create art from science
visualizations, with intriguing results.
