{"id":3924,"date":"2009-12-31T20:55:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T20:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/art-meet-science-cosmic-variance\/"},"modified":"2009-12-31T20:55:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T20:55:53","slug":"art-meet-science-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/art-meet-science-cosmic-variance.php","title":{"rendered":"Art, Meet Science | Cosmic Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apologies for the dismal lack of blogging — apparently even scientists travel around the holidays, who knew? I’m in South Carolina at the moment, so instead of the well-constructed argument (complete with witty parenthetical asides) on a pressing issue of the moment that I’d love to provide, please accept this simple link to some sketches by Richard Feynman<\/a>. (Via Chad Orzel<\/a>, author of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/em><\/a>.) <\/p>

Feynman’s fondness for drawing is well-known, especially when the subject was naked ladies. The sketches aren’t going to win any art competitions, but they’re certainly better that I could do. And here’s one I bet very few professional artists could pull off:<\/p>

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I find that the subtle use of integration by parts really speaks of man’s inhumanity to man, don’t you agree?<\/p>

But my favorite recent example of science-inflected art has to be this newly discovered late-period Jackson Pollock:<\/p>

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Oops, sorry; that’s not an abstract expressionist masterpiece at all. It’s a plot of theoretical predictions and experimental constraints for dark matter, as linked by Brian Mingus in comments<\/a>. Check out dmtools<\/a> if you’d like to make your own plot. Science and art are for everyone.<\/p>

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