Quantum Sculptures: Buckyballs
Julian Voss-Andreae
Quantum Buckyball, 2004
Bronze, diameter 24“ (60 cm)
Location: Private Collection (Portland, OR)
Julian Voss-Andreae
Quantum Reality (Large Buckyball Around Trees), 2007
Steel and trees, diameter 30' (9 m)
Location: Private Collection (Portland, OR)
Julian Voss-Andreae
Quantum Reality (Large Buckyball Around Trees), 2007
Steel and trees, diameter 30' (9 m)
Location: Private Collection (Portland, OR)
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These sculptures are inspired by Julian Voss-Andreae's graduate research in physics at Anton Zeilinger's group in Vienna (Austria). The
experiment explored the transition between Quantum Mechanics and the familiar world of classical physics and demonstrated the passage of single Carbon-60 molecules (Buckyballs) through more than one opening at once, thereby confirming matter behaves fundamentally as waves.
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Julian Voss-Andreae:
Quantum Sculpture: Art Inspired by the Deeper Nature of Reality, Leonardo
44 1 (2011)
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