You’re walking around the House of Reason – if you don’t mind me calling it that. This large, turquoise building houses the NEMO Science Museum. It offers a truly hands-on experience of the workings of the natural world.
So I can’t think of a less appropriate place to deny the law of universal gravitation. Or to claim that the Earth is actually flat. Or that a kilogram of steel is heavier than a kilogram of feathers. The laws of nature apply here. With this in mind, what the artists of UxU Studio have come up with is nothing less than an act of defiance. A waterfall that flows along the facade of the science museum. But not downwards, upwards! It shows just how far you can actually go with light. How it can trick you into accepting something even though you know it’s impossible. Light is the fastest-moving thing in the universe, as every scientist will confirm. But it’s also the most elusive phenomenon I can think of. And the most enchanting. Like there’s nothing it can’t do.
Fun fact
An UxU Studio brain teaser that will leave you stumped: our daily experience of time is rather asymmetrical. The past is fixed and irreversible, while the future is open and undetermined. Like two sides of a mirror. But most laws of nature don’t treat time as asymmetrical. These laws don’t concern themselves with the direction that time seems to move in. Leading the artists to wonder “How exactly does time exist? Is there such a thing as the present?” Feel free to email us your answers!
