Map of the Meaning of Physics
By Mark Vernon on Wednesday, September 10 2008, 09:18 - Science - Permalink
The media, at least here in the UK, has gone LHC mad. (All this talk of a big bang: have editors realised there won't be any results to report in this news cycle, and many to come?) But in celebration of a truly astonishing piece of apparatus, below is my Map of the Meaning of Physics - created with the artist Jeremy Wood.
I put it together during my Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship. The idea is to represent all the key elements that currently lead to metaphysical speculation in physics, or to the rejection of such. And to highlight what I take to be the six key positions that physicists have adopted when and if they think about what physics might mean, or not.
There's loads that could be said about the map: that is the bulk of the project. For now, enjoy as an object.













Comments
Brilliant! Thoroughly enjoyable.
I particularly enjoyed seeing the California Coast on your map as fractalized. I'm currently driving up the coast in California, on my current extended road trip to do my photography and video work. Fractalization is evident everywhere, not only in the features of the landscape, but definitely also in the local thought processes.
Isnt the Big Bang supposed to be what happpens on ones wedding night?
Nice site you have
WOW! Way COOOOL!
Im a Science Teacher in a Middle High School, here in Monterrey, MX. Its a way to get a copy in high resolution of your work? How much does it will cost?
Thanks for your time... and CONGRATULATIONS!
Yours,
Poncho Alarcon