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Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie White | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie White | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie White | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Attendees of the joint DOE/NIH Workshop: Advancing Medical Care through Discovery in the Physical Sciences Workshop Series skim the science during a poster session held at Jefferson Lab on Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
The Zero-Point Field
Ervin Laszlo (nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005) considers the zero-point field to be the fundamental underlying basis for reality. Laszlo sees the zero-point field as the basis for the entire realm of manifest phenomena, including mass, energy, and information. The zero-point field stores information and according to Laszlo may very well be accessible by human consciousness non-sensorially in the form of intuitions, images, archetypes and the seemingly anomalous contents of altered-state experiences.
Laszlo writes about the zero-point field:
“There the almost infinitely varied things and forms of the manifest world are united in an essential oneness at a deeper level. At the fundamental level of reality the forms of existing things dissolve into formlessness, living organisms exist in a state of pure potentiality, and dynamic functions condense into static stillness. All attributes of the manifest world merge into a state beyond attributes. Time, space and causality are transcended in a state of pure being: the state of Brahman. Absolute reality is the reality of Brahman; the manifest world enjoys but a derived, secondary reality – mistaking it for the real is the illusion of Maya.”
Participants attend the poster session on day four of the Computing in High Energy & Nuclear Physics (CHEP) conference held at the Marriott in downtown Norfolk, Va., on Thursday, May 11, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Attendees of the SBS Collaboration Meeting pose for a group photo at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Monday, July 17, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie White | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie White | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie White | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Cryomodule components inside the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab on Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
From Left: Senior SRF Engineer Tony Reilly chats with Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan, Congresswoman Jen Kiggans, and Congressman Bobby Scott during a visit inside the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Jefferson Lab Director Stuart Henderson speaks during the opening remarks of day one during the Computing in High Energy & Nuclear Physics (CHEP) conference held at the Marriott in downtown Norfolk, Va., on Monday, May 8, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Experts in high-performance computing and data management gathered this week for this 26th international conference. The conference provides a unique opportunity for computing experts across Particle and Nuclear Physics to come and learn together from each other and typically attracts over 500 participants from many countries.
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Participants attend the poster session on day four of the Computing in High Energy & Nuclear Physics (CHEP) conference held at the Marriott in downtown Norfolk, Va., on Thursday, May 11, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Virginia Congressman Bobby Scott during the opening remarks of day one during the Computing in High Energy & Nuclear Physics (CHEP) conference held at the Marriott in downtown Norfolk, Va., on Monday, May 8, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Experts in high-performance computing and data management gathered this week for this 26th international conference. The conference provides a unique opportunity for computing experts across Particle and Nuclear Physics to come and learn together from each other and typically attracts over 500 participants from many countries.
Jefferson Lab Experimental Hall D photo shoot taken in Newport News, Va., Aug. 28, 2015. (Photo by Hyunsoo Leo Kim)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie White | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie White | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Seen inside Experimental Hall C at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Friday, June 2, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie White | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie White | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Cryomodule components inside the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab on Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Deputy Associate Director for Accelerator Operations Mike Spata, left, and Congresswoman Jen Kiggans, right, walk through the accelerator tunnel during a tour of Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie White | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie White | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Day one of the Computing in High Energy & Nuclear Physics (CHEP) conference held at the Marriott in downtown Norfolk, Va., on Monday, May 8, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Experts in high-performance computing and data management gathered this week for this 26th international conference. The conference provides a unique opportunity for computing experts across Particle and Nuclear Physics to come and learn together from each other and typically attracts over 500 participants from many countries.
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie White | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie White | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Participants attend the poster session on day four of the Computing in High Energy & Nuclear Physics (CHEP) conference held at the Marriott in downtown Norfolk, Va., on Thursday, May 11, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Director Stuart Henderson, left, greets Congresswoman Jen Kiggans, right, before a visit to Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Day four of the Computing in High Energy & Nuclear Physics (CHEP) conference held at the Marriott in downtown Norfolk, Va., on Monday, May. 11, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Cryomodule components inside the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab on Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Is Schrödinger's cat in the box, or not? It depends on when you look at this linocut! This colour-changing thermochromic block print shows the famous thought-experiment of renown quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger (who would never hurt a real cat!). Both the cat in blue and the poison in pink will disappear when the print is exposed to heat.
In struggling to fully explain the strangeness of the quantum world, which can only be described in terms of probabilities and wave functions, Schrödinger suggested a sort of metaphor, at the size of every day things - the scale of classical physics as we know it. He imagined a cat in a steel box with a vial of poison which might be opened if, and only if, a radioactive decay occurs. In one half-life of the radioactive material, there is a 50:50 chance that the material has decayed or not. So, if the box is closed, and we cannot see within, we can only describe the state of the cat in terms of probabilistic wave functions. After one half-life, we would be forced to describe the contents of the box as the sum of the half likelihood of a live cat and the half likelihood of a dead cat. It is as if, to the outside world, there exists both a live and dead cat.... until, one opens the box and looks. Then we know we either have not yet had the radioactive decay and subsequent release of poison, so the cat is fine, or the radioactive material has decayed and the cat is no more. So, what's so special about looking in the box? Does the wave function "collapse" onto one of these two possibilities? Does the universe split into one in which the cat lives and one in which the cat does not, as in the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics? I tend to side with Niels Bohr whose Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics says, as all experimentalists know, unless you observe something you cannot determine its state. However, physics cannot answer this question! We can determine the probabilities only, we cannot say why. But that's okay. Paradox is delicious.
This is one print in an edition of 10. Each print is made with the box and vial printed in normal, silver block printing ink. The cat and poison are printed using thermochromic powder and block printing medium so when heated above 30°C (86 F) then they turn colourless and disappear. Thus, as in the thought experiment, you don't know whether there is a cat in the box without looking at the print. Each print is 12.3 by 12.5 inches (31.2 cm by 31.8 cm) and made on Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie White | Jefferson Lab)
Scenes from the 2023 Jefferson Lab Run-A-Round held at the Newport News campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Jefferson Lab Chief Information Officer Amber Boehnlein speaks to attendees during day one of the Computing in High Energy & Nuclear Physics (CHEP) conference held at the Marriott in downtown Norfolk, Va., on Monday, May 8, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Experts in high-performance computing and data management gathered this week for this 26th international conference. The conference provides a unique opportunity for computing experts across Particle and Nuclear Physics to come and learn together from each other and typically attracts over 500 participants from many countries.