The past two weeks at UCLA have been fantastic! Before I came here, I was a bit wary about how the program would incorporate both art and science. However, after 10 days, I’ve realized that science and art cannot exist without the other. They are interdependent, and share a symbiotic relationship. (Yay biology terms!) Science can become a reality through art, because the art will make the scientific ideas a visualization.
science married to art
I was really interested in the Anechoic Chamber, and the whole Science-y and Artsy ideas involving sound. When we first walked into the chamber, I was really scared, since we were walking on mesh wire. To make matters worse, someone in my group started jumping, causing the room to seem way smaller and I felt the pulse of the jump reverberating through the room. It was scary. However, later, when we just sat in the silence and darkness, it became more relaxing and so calm. But I could not agree more with the guest lecturer that there is no such thing as absolute silence.
Another thing that I found fascinating during the program was the lab visits some of the labs. The Plasma lab and the lab where cancer was studied were my favorites.
After this program, I’m only more excited for the future. The presentation about the future was also pretty crazy. The new technologies that are currently being developed keep pushing back the limits of what is impossible, thanks to the visualization, or art, of reality. Just think, less than 100 years ago, it was impossible to make machines that could fly. Then the airplane was invented. Less than 50 years ago, travel outside of the Earth’s atmosphere was undreamed of. But there have been over a dozen manned voyages into space. Now the exploration of life on other planets seems to be the next impossible challenge being tackled. Who knows what will happen in 20 years?
a future city?
A future car?
Although I am not so excited about getting old and wrinkly, I’m more excited for the new technologies of the future and the boundaries of impossibility being shattered forever.
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