Science and Creativity: The Multiverse Part II
Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
PRX
4.6 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
“The Crawick Multiverse” is a sprawling piece of landscape art tucked into Dumfries and Galloway in the Scottish countryside, on the site of what used to be a coal mine. The artist Charles Jenks took the BBC’s Anna Magnusson on a tour of the site.The landscape is a series of connected paths and landforms, studded with large boulders that make the site feel like a modern Stonehenge. The rocks appear ageless, but the mounds formed in the soil appear contemporary — even futuristic — with clean, geometric lines and a green carpet of grass. “Everything about this site shouts ‘cosmic,’” says Jenks. “What I’ve tried to do here is unpack that idea bit by bit. Landscape is the art form where we’re using nature to represent nature.” Two large mounds at the site represent the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way Galaxy, with other landforms that represent a Supercluster and comet path. A corkscrew walkway of mudstone represents the whole ensemble of universes — the multiverse.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRX. |
| 0:07.5 | This is Studio 360. I'm Kurti Anderson. |
| 0:12.9 | On this podcast Extra, we're bringing you a special series of stories about science and creativity. |
| 0:18.7 | This time, it's part two of a three-part look |
| 0:21.8 | at a staple of science fiction and fantasy, |
| 0:24.7 | the multiverse. |
| 0:33.1 | We've all got what-ifs. |
| 0:35.4 | Walk up to any random stranger in the park, |
| 0:37.7 | and they'll tell you what they'd do differently if they had a do-over. |
| 0:42.3 | I would have been a scientist. |
| 0:43.9 | I'd like to... Thank you, brother. |
| 0:45.2 | I'd like to make it be like a major discoverer of something. |
| 0:48.2 | I would have bought that apartment in Park Slope no matter what. |
| 0:52.8 | I would have made about three quarters or million dollars on it if I'd |
| 0:56.4 | bought it when I would slip through my fingers. To be honest, I would be 16 and I would have chosen |
| 1:04.3 | to continue my high education rather than get pregnant and have a baby. |
| 1:14.1 | A lot of us can't stop asking ourselves, that other version of me, that other choice, |
| 1:20.1 | that other life. |
| 1:21.4 | Is it better? |
| 1:22.8 | Yep. |
| 1:23.4 | That's the question I always have. |
| 1:27.2 | These are really existential questions. |
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