Curator Michael Albrow and artist Shanthi Chandrasekar will discuss the exhibition "Singularities and Infinities" in a gallery talk titled,"The Dark Side of the Universe: Black Holes, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy"
Singularities and Infinities, a juxtaposition of art and science, is the result of a collaboration between Shanthi Chandrasekar, an artist trying to capture the intricacies and wonders of the Universe, and Michael Albrow, an experimental physicist and science writer, seeking to explain in a few words the science behind the workings of the Universe.
Astronomers discovered that there is more matter in the universe than we can account for in stars and planets, matter not made of atoms or known particles, but pulling on them by the force of gravity. This “dark matter” holds galaxies and clusters of galaxies together and bends light rays from very distant galaxies. Black holes exist but do not seem to be enough. Scientists think yet-to-be discovered particles may be the cause. And the universe is expanding faster and faster due to mysterious “dark energy.
Michael Albrow obtained a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics at the University of Manchester, UK, in 1969 and is still active in research. He spent 18 years in Geneva, Switzerland at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, and was a professor at Stockholm University before coming to Fermilab near Chicago in 1991. There he was part of the team that discovered the top quark, the most massive fundamental particle known. Since 2005 he has been doing research at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, a 16-mile ring of superconducting magnets, and was part of the team that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012. He is now searching for new particles that may be a window to dark matter. Albrow is co-author of over 1900 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 70 as sole author, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He often gives popular lectures on physics and astronomy, and he writes a monthly Science Corner in the paper Positively Naperville.
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