Paracelsusstraße 2c

Quantum. Wahrnehmung in der wissenschaftlichen Forschung Austellung von Ivan Kindiak Vernissage: FREITAG, 22. Mai ab 18 Uhr Öffnungszeiten SA, 23. Mai: 16 – 18 Uhr SO, 24. Mai: 16 – 18 Uhr MO, 25. Mai: 18 – 20 Uhr DI, 26. Mai: 18 – 20 Uhr MI, 27. Mai: 18 – 20 Uhr DO, 28. Mai: 18 – 20 Uhr Finissage: FREITAG, 29. Mai ab 18 Uhr Bio: Ivan is PhD student in the Max Planck Institute in Halle. He carries out experiments and tries to understand physics happening in superconducting and magnetic materials. Abstract: In this exhibition, we invite to reconsider an old Plato’s notion that the ideal form of an object and the concrete real-life object we interact with are two separate entities. In everyday life, this distinction feels natural. For example, we may have an abstract idea of a pencil, yet every actual pencil differ in size, material, color, and history. Turns out, when we weaken our interaction with a real-life objects we can reach an irreducible limit - a quantum of interaction. Quanta are really something ideal and expressed with only few fundamental constants. For example, a quantum of magnetic field flux is just h/2e. There are no different distinguishable flux quanta, they are all identical, in fact, it is the same entity reappearing and multiplying. Equipped with modern instruments, we can interact with a pair of superconductors by means of electric and magnetic fields at temperatures close to absolute zero. We see quanta on the captured graphs. In such way, the encounter with an object in real life and its abstract idea is the same thing.