Close Encounters of Art and Physics : An Artist's View

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Rock Paintings: Primordial Graffiti  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 3-6
 A Sense of the Beauty of Forms  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 7-10
 Were the Dark Ages Really Dark?  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 11-14
 Rebirth!  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 15-24
 The Age of Reason: The Enlightenment  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 25-28
 Impressive Impressions  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 29-33
 What You See Is Not What You Get  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 35-38
 Is Reality Really Real?  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 39-48
 Abstraction: Pure Thought  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 49-56
 Timeless Time  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 57-61
 Does it Belong to the Elite?  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 63-69
Front Matter ....Pages 71-72
 What Time Is It?  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 73-78
 A Longer History of Time  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 79-85
 Just Call Me Jim  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 87-91
 Quintessence: The Spirit of the World  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 93-97
 Resolving the Unresolved  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 99-105
 The Brain Is an Orchestra  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 107-113
 Let’s Play Chess  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 115-119
 Are There Real Crystals in the Universe?  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 121-123
 Brain and Mind  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 125-128
 In Memory of Tom Kibble  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 129-134
 Conclusion  (Laura Pesce)....Pages 135-135
Back Matter ....Pages 137-138