The Big Picture

This article is from Times Magazine by ALIX BROWNE.
It was publish on 26th september, 2008.

CERN is the world's largest particle physics laboratory, located near Geneva at the border between Switzerland and France. Its newest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, above, is scheduled to begin test operations in fall 2007.

The Large Hadron Collider at the Cern particle physics laboratory near Geneva will accelerate two beams of protons traveling in opposite directions in a circular ring about 17 miles around.

As we all know about this big project going on at Nasa.
The artist Josiah McElheny was conducting a test of his own ideas on the Big Bang theory at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York City. He was inspired by Lobmeyr chandeliers at Metropolitan Opera house and was informed by relater equations derived by David H. Weinberg, McElheny’s chrome, glass and electric-light sculpture “The End of the Dark Ages” is part of a four-year investigation into the origins of the universe. Than began the “The End to Modernity,” a sculpture commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University. This added next month in big installation titled " Island Universe" at while cube in London.

McElheny say, “I had this exceedingly idea to do modernized versions of the Lobmeyr chandeliers as sculpture with secret information behind it. According to McElheny physic student continues to wonder wether “is the world this way because it must be, or is it just random?” In 1965, the Lobmeyr chandeliers were designed, it was discovered that our world is not the centre of the universe. The idea was that there could be infinite number of possible write ups becoming popular not only in science but also in art and literature,
hence article says so why not in interior design too??
Wallace K. Harrison, the architect for the Met, having rejected the original design for the chandeliers, gave Hans Harald Rath of Lobmeyr, the Vienna-based glassmaker, a book about galaxies and sent him back to the drawing board.

“The End of the Dark Ages” is a scientifically accurate model
This explains 100 million years, the longest about 1.3 billion, the clusters of glass stand for galaxy formations. Yet McElheny is less concerned with exact science than the limits of reason and knowledge.

“Politically, I’m against finding the single answer,” McElheny insists. “I’m more interested in what these questions mean to our sense of who we are.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/magazine/28Style-t.html?ref=design