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nutmeg discovered 15 months ago
"Bubble-chamber images reveal the unseen beauty of particle physics" In Search of Meaning #1 Lylie Fisher, a young artist from San Francisco with a fascination for bubble chambers, has taken original images of bubble tracks from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center archives and made artworks from them. In Search of Meaning #5 The article also gives a handy history of bubble chambers - now largely relegated to the dustbin of particle physics history, replaced by more powerful, computerised accelerators. Well worth a read.
- laodan rated 15 months ago
- Bubble-chamber images reveal the unseen beauty of particle physics via my friend Nutmeg, in the San Diego Union Chronicle by Scott LaFee
"Bubble chamber pictures have played an important role in conveying science without oversimplifying the fundamentals. It's like, 'What you see is what you get.' These pictures are, in my mind, masterpieces of nature's abstract art." Some of that art can be seen here, the work of a San Francisco-based artist named Lylie Fisher, who has taken original bubble chamber images from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center archives and embellished them with colored resins, pigments and varnishes to bring out and emphasize their innate grace and beauty. Bubble-chamber images reveal the unseen beauty of particle physics
Great images. Vivek Sharma calls those images "masterpieces of nature's abstract art." But their abstract character is only due to our present day ignorance of the reality that they represent. It is the nature of scientific knowings to be parcellar and only time allows to combine those abstract parcels, those knowings, into more globally encompassing forms of knowledge. And the emergence of such more globally encompassing forms of knowledge in turn allow all those who share in them to gain a clearer understanding of those visual representations of the initial parcellar knowings... Those images are indeed visual representations of figments of nature and as such they are not directly understandable but one senses that in a later day science will succeed to understand the assembling of all the figments of nature around that particular one. The knowledge of that ensemble, in which a figment is represented here, will then be shared largely and only then will these images of a figment of that ensemble take their full realist significance... Try imagining someone representing details of a portrait or of a landscape, figments of them, those representations would equally appear abstractions. It is only when the detail, the figment is replaced into the globality of the ensemble it belongs to that it gains itsfull significance... These are indeed representations of reality, or of nature, albeit a reality that we still do not understand. The abstraction that we see in those images is then no more than the reflection of our ignorance of the reality that they represent.
- Bubble-chamber images reveal the unseen beauty of particle physics via my friend Nutmeg, in the San Diego Union Chronicle by Scott LaFee
