| Microcosm,
Virtual Voyage through the Human Body
If you’ve ever wondered what it would
be like to explore the eye, navigate through
the brain or hang on as blood surges past you
from the heart’s valves, this fantastic
voyage for you. You’ll travel through
a cell, into the nucleus, and watch as a virus
attacks.
In Microcosm an armada
of nanoshells, displayed as yellow submarines,
sets out in the blood stream, through the eye,
ear and brain, in search of a deadly virus.
The virus is found, a fierce battle wages over
the Planetarium dome, and the patient is saved.
Microcosm uses the
latest discoveries of nanoscale science to create
a voyage that is realistic and possible for
inner space probes only a few nanometers wide.
The experience is incredible, but so is the
technology that has made imaging at this scale
a reality. Audiences learn about using superconductors
to measure magnetic fields outside the body
and about deploying gold nanoshells to the sites
of tumors or infections.
It's an adventure to “inner space,”
rather than outer space. Humans have experienced
how far it is to the moon. And now, thanks to
more Houston scientists, we can reach the genetic
code inside our cells, a journey equal in scale
to a trip to the moon at eight orders of magnitude.
Microcosm is produced
in conjunction with Evans & Sutherland Corporation
with collaboration and support from the Center
for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology,
the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology,
the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
at Rice University, and the Texas Center for
Superconductivity at the University of Houston.
For show licensing, please contact Evans &
Sutherland Corporation.
Music and Score by Shai Fishman
Mix and Post Production - Fish-i Studios
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