At the cern collider in switzerland they’ve been unraveling reality, pulling smaller and smaller threads until they’re down to whimsically named little wiggles of nothing, and now they want to build a bigger one to go even further. They’re hot on the trail of how it all works and it’s a glorious quest, but what can be done with the answer? Just how far beyond the human realm do they need to go, because the territory they’ve entered is an odd sort of real.
This brings us to Schrodinger's cat, the physicist’s favorite quantum paradox. There’s a cat inside a box and your logical mind says it’s either alive or dead, but in a quantum reality it isn’t either until you lift the lid and look. Somehow this also applies to all the dancing little particles that form the substance of the world, and all the way up on a human scale it sounds suspiciously like a person’s perception forms at least part of reality. This is a loose translation of endless blackboards of computation since these deep thinkers tend to be rather shy about the theological implications of the various dimensions they’ve encountered. It’s all much easier with pictures.
It’s just natural to assume the world looks the same to everyone but present day dissent and discord say otherwise. Two equally intelligent people can watch the same evening news and each totally miss what the other saw. What we have here is two different sets of experience and belief, the individual continents of our personal worlds, and we’d all get along better with more overlap. Don’t expect much help from scientists, this insular order of monks are totally removed from the world until their funding is cut. This is a job for art and artists, who even without funding have been here all along.
Look at a photograph and see what you always see but look at a painting and see what the artist saw and this will be different. The artist represents their experience as faithfully as their skill set allows, and the viewer compares it to what they see on a normal day, mission one complete. Artists can go farther. In their paintings they can encode attitudes and insights about life and living, although this isn't directly intentional and more a product of process. The viewer recognizes and assimilates this information but not at a conscious level, so just looking lets it happen. Does looking at art alter reality? With a bigger atom smasher maybe we could find out, but no doubt it changes the way the world is seen, and maybe the way we all see it together.
This brings us to Schrodinger's cat, the physicist’s favorite quantum paradox. There’s a cat inside a box and your logical mind says it’s either alive or dead, but in a quantum reality it isn’t either until you lift the lid and look. Somehow this also applies to all the dancing little particles that form the substance of the world, and all the way up on a human scale it sounds suspiciously like a person’s perception forms at least part of reality. This is a loose translation of endless blackboards of computation since these deep thinkers tend to be rather shy about the theological implications of the various dimensions they’ve encountered. It’s all much easier with pictures.
It’s just natural to assume the world looks the same to everyone but present day dissent and discord say otherwise. Two equally intelligent people can watch the same evening news and each totally miss what the other saw. What we have here is two different sets of experience and belief, the individual continents of our personal worlds, and we’d all get along better with more overlap. Don’t expect much help from scientists, this insular order of monks are totally removed from the world until their funding is cut. This is a job for art and artists, who even without funding have been here all along.
Look at a photograph and see what you always see but look at a painting and see what the artist saw and this will be different. The artist represents their experience as faithfully as their skill set allows, and the viewer compares it to what they see on a normal day, mission one complete. Artists can go farther. In their paintings they can encode attitudes and insights about life and living, although this isn't directly intentional and more a product of process. The viewer recognizes and assimilates this information but not at a conscious level, so just looking lets it happen. Does looking at art alter reality? With a bigger atom smasher maybe we could find out, but no doubt it changes the way the world is seen, and maybe the way we all see it together.
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