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The Light Universe
Exhibition
Beyond Absolute Zero - second showing
25 Jun 2024 – 9 Jul 2024
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 08:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 08:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 08:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 08:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 08:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 08:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 08:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 11 Chapel Lane
- Glasgow
Scotland - G11 6EW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Hillhead Subway
An installation by artist Gregor Harvie celebrating 200 years since the birth of legendary physicist Lord Kelvin.
About
The installation features two very large paintings - the dark universe and the light universe - commmissioned by the Quantum Theory Group at the University of Glasgow.
The two contrasting pieces confront each other in a specially constructed enclosure, built in the exhibition space of the Advanced Research Centre. The light universe encompasses everything we are familiar with, the universe that we see and feel, the matter and energy that physicists have discovered, measured and classified. The dark universe in contrast is a mystery. Thought to account for 95% of everything, it comprises dark matter and dark energy, neither of which has ever been detected and about which virtually nothing is known.
