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Quantum Man
Medium: stainless steel
Year Produced: 2009
Dimensions in inches (H x W): 126" x 55" x 25"
“Since the demonstration of Bose-Einstein condensation in 1995, the science and applications of coherent matter waves...have opened up research frontiers...” Bose–Einstein condensates, fragile that they are to warming past a condensation threshold, can demonstrate interference between condensates due to wave-particle duality, a duality metaphorically represented by this sculpture.
Quantum Man is the image of a walking human as a quantum object. Made up of thin, vertically oriented steel sheets representing quantum mechanical matter waves, the 11‘ (3.20 m) tall sculpture is a metaphor for the counter-intuitive world of quantum physics. The sculpture seems to consist of solid steel when seen from the front, but dissolves into almost nothing when seen from the side.
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