SURFACE TENSION - HYDROGENY

HYDROGENY by EVELINA DOMNITCH, DMITRY GELFAND, an exhibit at the SURFACE TENSION exhibition at the SCIENCE GALLERY, Trinity College, Dublin in 2011

Nature's simplest atom and mother of all matter, hydrogen, feeds the stars as well as interlaces the molecules of their biological descendants - to whom it ultimately whispers the secrets of quantum reality. Emanating from an array of electrodes at the bottom of a water-filled chamber, strings and strata of hydrogen bubbles slowly rise to the surface. A white laser sheet illuminates the bubble trajectories as it breaks up into its constituent spectrum of colours. Some researchers presume that these nanobubbles of dissolved gas are the carriers of water's magnetic 'memory', enabling electromagnetic fields to saturate its innards for hours and even days after their initial appearance. In the seas and oceans, the lingering presence of electromagnetic fields photonically imparted by sunlight triggers the electrolysis responsible for most of Earth's hydrogen. An essential form of photosynthesis, solar water splitting is the cleanest and most efficient means imaginable for generating and storing energy. Hydrogeny continues Evelina and Dmitry's work in constructing art installations that offer ever-transforming phenomena for the viewer's observation. 'The immediacy of this experience', write the artists, 'allows the observer to transcend the illusory distinction between scientific discovery and perceptual expansion'.

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Science & Technology

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• DMITRY GELFAND
• Surface tension
• the future of water
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• science gallery
• science
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• trinity college
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[htregil]

@ScienceGallery So...this is a surprisingly easy thing to set up (and is also uber pretty, which is why I want to make one now) but...what kinda wattage of laser are you using? And what type of diffraction grating is giving you the fan effect/how many beams along the fan make it up?

[sinisterdevilyna]

too creative