I’m a bit of a dork when it comes to really big machines. As far as I’m concerned, few things on the planet are as awesome or beautiful as a powerful and intricate piece of machinery: the bigger the better. So naturally, I find it really cool that someone else would think of the mac-daddy of all big and powerful machines, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, as art.
Starting next year CERN has plans to set up an artist in residency program, where artists and scientists will have the opportunity to, as one CERN representative put it, “[explore] the absolute boundaries of the known world [together].” Featured above is artist Josef Kristofoletti’s three-story-tall (and incredibly, only 1/3 scale) mural representation of the LHC’s ATLAS particle detector, painted directly onto the ATLAS headquarters building.
In fact, CERN scientists have become known for their own creativity ever since a rap song on the LHC created at CERN hit over 6 million views on YouTube. Check it out below.
So much for the idea that science and art don’t mesh. For more info click HERE.
OK, I don’t understand physics, but the size and scope of this project is something quite beautiful. I hope if they do find something, that someone will be able to explain it to me in terms I can understand. Science is beautiful.