Another Use for VR in Education

This morning I read an article in Wired about Science education in schools today, and how it's lack of creativity is hindering the learning experience of students. The article mentions that the history of science has been a process of creating models, physical or scientific. Some of these models are hard for an amateur scientific mind to comprehend. It can be very difficult for a student to think in 3 dimensional space, and as our understanding of certain scientific models becomes more sophisticated, it becomes necessary to visualize these principles in 3D to properly understand them. For example, in a re-publishing of Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" the drawings that Hawking had written in his original publishing were changed into 3D diagrams, and presented in an easier to swallow textbook format. I believe VR can take this principle a bit further. 

Now imagine viewing a 3 diagram of an atom, or of the curvature of space-time or a chemical compound, within a virtual reality space. This could be a massively useful learning tool for students, being able to view and manipulate these models in real time. The days of using balls and sticks to present chemical bonds could be over, and students could sit in a virtual space and manipulate these components at will. Being able to get an orbital and surrounding view of something as complex as the curvature of space-time or a diagram of a black hole could make the concept much easier to grasp for a learning mind. It's almost like the scene of Bruce Banner and Tony Stark manipulating data on a virtual computer in the Avengers. Once again modern technology making science fiction a possibility.