Friedmann's Equation
Printed in resin only a few millimeters tall from a 3D scan.
The curve is the hyperbolic sin function, a model for the Universe's expansion.
Panel is cut and backed with black fabric to create a light trap.
The Universe started small, expanded, and is now accelerating.
We can measure beyond our ability to sense and internalize our findings. This creates scientific absurdity where our seeking of understanding is in tension with our inability to understand. Scientific rationality is a powerful engine for generating knowledge centered meaning while intentionally avoiding existential meaning. Scientists and non-scientists must turn toward art and philosophy to explore and grasp the influence discovery should have on the self and society. The further we are removed from a fact about reality by scale in space or time the less influential it feels. By allowing the human perspective to float along these scales we can see that all scales in space and time are connected with equal weight. (11x14 panel with resin model)