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Art and science

What does physics look like, and does it matter?

12 Jun 2021
Taken from the June 2021 issue of Physics World.

The conceptual worlds of physics have long inspired artists and thinkers across disciplines. Anna Starkey explores how different approaches to visualizing physics can open up the way that society thinks and feels about physics as an imaginative human endeavour

Untitled by Goshka Makuga
Word art Goshka Macuga, Untitled, 2018, installation view at Entangle: Physics and the Artistic Imagination 2018, curated by Ariane Koek. Left to right, from top row: Michael Doser, Peter West, Hiranya Peiris, Subodh Patil, Michael Bradley, Carlo Rovelli, Cecilia Jarlskog, John Ellis and Bilge Demirkoz. (© Goshka Macuga 2018. Photo by Mikael Lundgren/Bildmuseet)
Look up the word “physics” on Google Images, and what you see may surprise you. If, like me, you

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Anna Starkey is a freelance science communicator and curator based in Bristol, UK. Starkey was previously the creative director of We The Curious, a science museum in Bristol, and a BAFTA-nominated writer and producer for the BBC, e-mail anna@updownelectron.com
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