The main idea of Jonah Lehrer’s essay was to explain how art is connect to science and how we can use art to help further our knowledge of science. Lehrer used Niels Bohr’s observation of matter as an example of how art can help us further our understanding of science.
I understand how Niels Bohr connected science and art but in my opinion art is not essential to be successful in science. One sentence in the essay was “This meant that electrons weren’t like little planets at all. Instead, they were like on of Picasso’s deconstructed guitars, a blur of brushstrokes that only made sense once you stared at it.” This sentence took me back the first time I read it because it painted a picture in my head of how people did not understand electrons in the past and how they must have imagined it. I agree science is very linear compared to art but there are some different theories out there about space and time.
Cubist: Cubism is an early-20th-century art movement which brought European painting and sculpture historically forward toward 20th century Modern art. Cubism in its various forms inspired related movements in literature and architecture. (google)
Quantum mechanics: the branch of mechanics that deals with the mathematical description of the motion and interaction of subatomic particles, incorporating the concepts of quantization of energy, wave-particle duality, the uncertainty principle, and the correspondence principle (google)
Trajectory:the path followed by a projectile flying or an object moving under the action of given forces (google)
Lepidopterist:a person who studies or collects butterflies and moths (google)
