What does science look like through the eyes of an artist? Sarah Szabo shows us with her piece, “Quark-Gluon Plasma Entering Hadronization.” Szabo is a multimedia artist who studies at the Pratt Institute with one of Brookhaven’s theoretical physicists, Ágnes Mócsy.
Images of particle collisions deep within the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider – where heavy ions smash together and melt into a strange form of matter called Quark-Gluon Plasma – gave rise to Szabo’s exhibition, “Glamorous Gluons.” Her particle-physics-inspired art will be displayed here at Brookhaven for the next month.
“I think there is a lot of similarity between the cutting-edge physics research that we are doing and art,” Mócsy said. “We are people trying to understand and figure out the world; we all do that. The medium we use is different, but the bottom line is that we all try to get an insight into the same kind of questions, and we try to understand a little more our place as humans. When we make our physics accessible, great things can happen. When physics meets art, really great things can happen.”
