February 16—March 7, 2011
Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Æther. From Cosmology to Consciousness Christoph Keller
Press Release
Aether, one could say, is the unknown. But how can the unconceivable be conceived? The answer is multifold: From Plato‘s fifth element to Descartes one can find a multitude of philosophical-theological and scientific theories of aether. Several natural philosophers, like Giordano Bruno, Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton, whose works are fundamental for today‘s science, based their theories on the assumption that aether was a given. Parallel to the rise of the enlightenment an abundance of...