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Quantum worlds

Despite ever-new research results, scientific experts have not yet succeeded in unravelling the secret of the physical processes inside an atom. Since Planck and Heisenberg, we have known that subatomic processes obey different laws than those we know from the macrocosm according to the Newtonian world view of classical physics. Are the quarks that make up neutrons and protons and form the atomic nucleus and the electrons that orbit it, mass particles or are they waves? Are the strings that the quarks are supposed to consist of one-dimensional threads or are they superstrings with up to eleven dimensions? Nobody knows, and the size of these quanta, which are measured in Planck lengths (a Planck length is 10-35 m), is unimaginable. If an atom had a diameter of 10 kilometers, the length of a quark would be 0.1 millimeters.

But the artist has every opportunity to creatively present his or her individual vision of these worlds, without considering scientific verifiability.

In my piece "Quantum Worlds" I imagine a super electron scanning microscope through which one can observe the processes inside an atom with a trillion-fold magnification. Perhaps processes take place there that are very similar to those in our macroscopic world.

I therefore consciously resort to composition techniques that have their roots in the traditional area. The interlocking of conventional instruments and electronically generated sounds through a synthesizer module form the duality of the overlapping physical world views.

Harald Banter