Rosalind McLachlan sub specie aeternitatis (excerpt), 2014
R o s a l i nd M cLach l an
Video, 5 mins 52 secs
Selected by Matthew Hearn
MFA Newcastle University Since 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva has dominated global news media. Whilst we may have at best a superficial understanding as to the function of this instrument of scientific discovery, the LHC, its corollary the Higgs boson particle and a lexicon of scientific terminology have entered into everyday vocabulary. Such has been the interest that an exhibition entitled Collider, explicitly about CERN, premièred this year at the Science Museum. Why? Because beyond our interest in physics or scientific discovery, we are also hooked by the promise of answers to the fundamental questions about our existence within the universe. ≥ Read more