I began reading Art & Physics, parallel vision in space, time & light
By: Leonard Shlain
"There is no science without fancy and no art without facts"- Vladimir Nabokov
The first chapter outlines how the book came to fit together and what Shlain considered his thesis for the combination of the dimensions of art, space, time, and light. Shlain first addressed what i found most difficult, how do art and physics fit together? Art is relative, flexible, boundless, and full of avant-garde ideals. Contrary physics is science, reason, logical, and set. Shalin ties both together with purpose. Both artist, physicist, and philosophers set out to investigate the nature of reality. Shalin goes back into the Greek time describing the philosopher's quest to be masters of nature and reality. Shalin sets us up to compare revolutionary artists pprecursing the questions scientist will address and focus on solving. An example is given: Vincent Van Gogh addressed to his brother in many letters his distress over how words could not accurately decides his emotions and art. Years late Neilh Bohr (the famous physicist) focused on solving the universal language of both words and physics, for physics has a language of its own. Shalin will create a simultaneous time line for physics, art, and history.
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