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Two Australian scientists believe they have found evidence of a parallel universe of strange matter within our own Solar System.
Dr Robert Foot and Dr Saibal Mitra report that close-up observations of the asteroid Eros by the Near-Shoemaker probe indicate it has been splattered by so-called "mirror matter".
Mirror matter is not anti-matter, it is altogether weirder. It is somehow a "reflection" of normal matter, a sort of parallel series of particles required to restore the balance of the Universe.
Sounds far-fetched - some believe so. However, experiments are underway to confirm or deny the existence of this strange, potentially significant but as yet undetected component of the cosmos.
You can read more about Strangeness in the Universe at the following link:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2463143.stm
Nice cartoon, but I don't think it was Robert Rauchenberg who was known for producing white or blank canvases. That must have been some other artist. Robert Ryman perhaps, or Ad Reinhardt if my memory serves me. You may be thinking of his supposedly have erased a deKooning drawing? Rauchenberg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenberg and Andy Warhol along with other Pop Artists all made some very good art most of which was not blank.
ReplyDeleteI was quite surprised to find that Rauschenberg had, in fact, done "white paintings" when I stumbled upon one in a gallery. See: http://tinyurl.com/Rauschenberg-white-paintings.
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