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The paintings in the book interpret a visualization exercise of a quantum phenomenon never viewed by humans. Actually, due to relativity, just the attempt or act of observation changes the dynamics of the phenomenon and so objectivity is lost. Creating artworks based on this conceptual challenge motivates me. Quantum foam (also referred to as space-time foam) is a concept in quantum mechanics. The foam is supposed to be conceptualized as the foundation of the fabric of the universe. Additionally, quantum foam can be used as a qualitative description of subatomic space-time turbulence at extremely small distances (on the order of the Planck length). At such small scales of time and space, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle allows energy to briefly decay into particles and antiparticles and then annihilate without violating physical conservation laws. As the scale of time and space being discussed shrinks, the energy of the virtual particles increases. According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, energy curves space-time. This suggests that—at sufficiently small scales—the energy of these fluctuations would be large enough to cause significant departures from the smooth space-time seen at larger scales, giving space-time a “foamy” character.
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According to the theory of Inflation, the early universe expanded exponentially fast for a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. The expansion of the universe during the inflationary epoch serves as a huge microscope that magnifies quantum fluctuations, corresponding to a scale less than 10 to the minus 28 centimeters, and then extrapolated to cosmological distances. This leaves imprints in the cosmic microwave background radiation and in the distribution of galaxies.
The paintings in the book correspond to the explanation of Inflation Cosmology and help to illustrate the concepts, including the original nano second explosion that is the basis of what is commonly referred to as The Big Bang. Furthermore, any singularity inside a black hole may also mirror what transpired when the universe initially inflated from its own singularity. The text and font style of this book pay homage to 15th century monastic bibles.
The first book printed in the western world from movable type on a printing press was by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany, in an edition of about 180 copies; It is the St. Jerome Vulgate, in Latin, (also known as the Gutenberg Bible) 42 lines to the page; 1,282 printed pages (641 leaves) in two volumes: the Old Testament (O.T.) and New Testament (N.T.), unpaginated, Rubrication was by hand and the type was specifically designed to resemble a hand-written manuscript. Every era has its own specific technological epiphanies. Quantum physics will lead us all to the next frontier. MONDU