I have written elsewhere of how much art there is responding to science, but it is much harder to find science that learns…

“I have written elsewhere of how much art there is responding to science, but it is much harder to find science that learns directly from art, since the goals of the two enterprises remain quite different. Or if they both have a similar goal of revealing deeper truths about nature, one does so with amazing insight, the other with rigorously documented investigation. But Domnitch and Gelfand’s work crosses the line sometimes because it reveals natural phenomena scientists thought were impossible to see or even to create. Their best-known work, “Camera Lucida,” investigates the mysterious phenomenon of sonoluminescence, a physical oddity discovered in 1929, whereby tiny oxygen bubbles bombarded with sound can be compressed enough to faintly glow.”

– Rothenberg, David. Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution. London: Bloomsbury, 2011. (viacarvalhais)