Close Encounters of Art and Physics An Artist's Vi
Close Encounters of Art and Physics is a voyage in time through the abstract ideas harboured in the minds of humans, starting from the graffiti art of cave dwellers and extending to the street art of contemporary men and women. In seeking parallels w
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Close Encounters of Art and Physics An Artist’s View
Close Encounters of Art and Physics
Laura Pesce
Close Encounters of Art and Physics An Artist’s View
Laura Pesce Campiglia Marittima, Italy
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Acknowledgements
I have been thinking about writing this book for quite a long time. Unfortunately, I could not find enough free time to do it. Then, I thought, what is time after all, only an illusion, even if it is a stubborn one, and difficult to avoid as Einstein affirmed. Finally, I decided to enter into this illusion of time, and I started to scribble some thoughts in a notebook and, at the same time, I was making drawings to describe what I was thinking in a more visual way. Then I found out that, with a combination of reading popular books about physics and drawing and painting in various ways about what I was reading, I could seriously start to write a book about the parallel between art and physics. I have always been more attracted to experiment than to theory, so writing a book appeared quite challenging to me. Many ideas about this parallelism were crowding my mind, but when I finally started, I realized that I needed some help. In fact, the writing of this book would not have been possible without help from physicists, and they showed admirable patience when I asked them to explain these difficult scientific theories to me in simple terms. Therefore, I sincerely thank all the physicists I had the good fortune to meet, a
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