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The Ultimate Test

and the flow of time.

Although he is regarded as one of the most brilliant mathematical physicists of the century, Einstein thought of himself as much as a philosopher as a scientist. Certainly his theories relating matter, energy, space, time and gravity have guided much of the work in theoretical physics since 1905. His famous "thought experiments," based on intuition and imagination rather than laboratory work, propelled us beyond the mechanistic, unchanging "clockwork universe" of Newton and the other classical physicists into a relativistic universe. Here clocks run slower or faster depending on the speed of travel or location in the universe, and "true" distances are stretched or shrunk by gravity.

Einstein's legacy is a universe in which space and time are woven into a single fabric -- spacetime. It is matter that causes spacetime to curve and whose motion and properties are, in turn, altered by that curvature. A short video on Einstein's ideas. 
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"THE FUTURE OF ART IS LIGHT"

Resonant Wave FestivaL
Berlin 2002 Paul Friedlander Light Sculpture and
The human intercations with lightbeams trigger different responses to different waves of energy.
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Mandala

Interaction with light waves and inner galactic space leads into bigger and deeper cosmic questions. Dr. Cornell has researched this inner reality. She refers to some specific fields of research in her book on Mandalas and geometric art and science. Dr. Judith Cornell describes the art of mandalas and the luminous symbols for healing..

"Light Flurries" 1992
is a reflection hologram made in three exposures, using red laser light. During each exposure the emulsion is immersed in a different mixture of water and alcohol, which swells the emulsion to varying degrees, resulting in a multicolored final image. This is an economical way to make different colors visible in reflection holograms with only a red laser to record the hologram.

Using HOEs in the Holographic Image Making Process

Complete Program Abstracts Alphabetical Author Listing Registration and Lodging Conference Site Information Abstracts from Quantum Mind I

If quantum mechanical processes are at work in "ordinary" consciousness, this opens up vast possibilities for exploring higher consciousness. What is happening to an electron while it is in the superposition state? Where is it? Physics can't really answer this question now, but one hypothesis is that these particles are moving into other dimensions.

Dimensions are just directions in space, each direction at a right angle to the others. Our physical, classical nervous system is only capable of perceiving three dimensions. How many dimensions, ultimately, could there be? Evidence from quantum mechanics suggests that there could well be an infinite number of dimensions.

Telepathy and clairvoyance may perhaps be a manifestation, in our classical world, of non-locality. The brain is able to access this information because part of it is behaving quantum mechanically. Consciousness may not be limited to the physical body, but may also reside in higher dimensions. This is a kind of scientific Neoplatonism.

To create a Sun Drawing, artist Saad-Cook shapes and assembles reflective materials (mirrored metals and optically coated glass) and positions the reflective instrument in a pre-selected path of direct sunlight.
The optical coatings on the glass are multi-layered interference coatings that break light into its pure colors. No pigments are used. The colors in a Sun Drawing are pure colors of sunlight.

The Fox-fur nebula AAO ref AAT 14b	The stars in M20 AAO ref AAT 30	Loops of NGC 3576 AAO ref AAT 39	Dust fingers in M16 AAO ref AAT 47
Shapley-1 planetary AAO ref AAT 95	The Abell 1060 cluster AAO ref AAT 116	Sagittarius star clouds AAO ref UKS 20	Edge-on galaxy NGC 891 AAO ref INT 4
Lge Magellanic Cloud AAO ref UKS 14	The Antares nebula AAO ref UKS 30	NGC 6752 in Pavo AAO ref AAT 111	Comet Hyakutake AAO ref UKS 33
Cometary globule CG4 AAO ref AAT 71	Bubble nebula NGC 7635 AAO ref INT 10	NGC 1300 galaxy AAO ref AAT-CCD 14

"Light is said to be our first experience with the world and our last. It is both ephemeral and constant. Alll world cultures count on daily and seasonal changing light to define the rhythm of life; waking/sleeping, working/play. Light has come to define time, not only the diurnal light of the day but also the light year (a unit of astrological distance), expanding our concept of what time m eans." Joy Wulke An Illustrated history of the enquiry into light as presented in the Stony Creek Quarry. Performers included rock climbers in illuminated costumes, dancers, laser and theatrical light performers with water, fire, and mist. An origional sound score accompanied by ambient frogs complimented the visual effects. "Perhaps truth about light and our fictions simultaneously invent each other. It is why we need the sun and why we must make our own light when the sun is gone." Sydney Perkowitz, Empire of Light From top to bottom: Jamie Burnett, Margaret Carl, Lydia Emperador, and Istvan Peter B'Raczt.

"From the petroglyphs to equations. From stone walls to chalkboards. Human kind's scrim bbled attempts to make order of the universe. Messages into the future that are symbols of the quest/questions of the day…Einstein's questions and mathematically quantifiable answers blew the roof off common sense observations and his theories of relativity introduced the concept of space/time continuum into our vocabulary. Then quantum mechanics cam in that said that we alter any experiment we engage in, that the act of observing alters that which is observed. Finally, we are at the threshold of String Theory, the theory which so excites and delights physicists. It could be the Big T.O.E. - Theory of Everything." Susan Mendelshon June, 1999

A state of the art theatrical light and laser performance on a water curtain.

What if Einstein and Curie, Leonardo and the Arab creators of the Astrolabe collaborated with the men and women Shamans of Australia, Africa, the Americas and other world cultures to create an event that asked questions about the meaning of time, important events of the last Millennium and the meaning of earth and sky to our world view? Perhaps they would be asking the same questions of each other we explored in Terra Continuum, an epic event fully staged in the Stony Creek Granite Quarry. The story was illustrated through light projections, laser, falling and shooting water, fire, original music, sculpture, performance, dance, and audience participation.