FIU News
May 31, 2013
What happens when an artist and a physicist meet? By Karen Cochrane
The world was captivated earlier this year when scientists at CERN confirmed the existence of the elusive Higgs boson particle. A half-century of searching by a team of 4,000 scientists could now proclaim to the world that, finally, they had found the subatomic speck often referred to as the “God particle.”
FIU artist Xavier Cortada and physicist Pete Markowitz collaborated on an art installation that will forever mark the historic occasion: five banners at Point Five at the Large Hadron Collider.