2016 Joint Mathematics Meetings
Daniel Raymond Chadwick
Artists
Statement
I enjoy creating images that employ ideas from mathematical and philosophical sources. My drawings consist of continuous forms, impossible objects, and stretched spaces within which discovery of the content in a new way may lead to the wonder of curiosity.
Artworks
The Multiple Worlds of the Schrodingers’ Cats
Erwin Schrodinger’s wave equation prompted him to write a parable about the cat in a box with a radioactive decay triggered device. He commented that the cat was in a quantum state until one opened the box; i.e., neither alive nor dead. According to the Many-Worlds theory, however, when Schrodinger opens the box the world splits in two; in one world the cat is alive but in another world the cat is dead.
No cats were harmed in the production of this drawing.