Today we were introduced to the more artistic part of this course. Rita and Gao talke about shapes in nature, engineering, and art.We then moved onto Einstein and Newtons theories on gravity and the speed of light and how the two didn’t match up if the sun were to go away.
Later we went into a museum with paintings done by Native Australians. The pieces were very interesting and involved many symbols with earth like colors. They had a lot of spiritual symbols with repetitive dots and patterns. I found them very artistic and creative.
We went to a plasma lab created by Dr. Walter Gekelman.
I thought that The two huge magnetic chambers shooting lasers to keep the plasma really hot was pretty intense and cool and that it could ripe out our magnetic strips in our plastic cards.
Then we went into a rare books collection in the UCLA Library which included things from Copernicus/Galileo to get well cards and old trinkets.
What i liked the most today was the tribal paintings. It really fascinated me how big and detailed some were. The colors was very mellow and calming and all the symbols really made you think and get into the art. They were creative and really well done.