Doors to the Universe

“Gravitational waves open doors to our understanding of the universe.”

In February 2016, LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, reported finding for the first time ever gravitational waves. These waves are produced in space-time when massive objects move. This historic signal was produced by a pair of black holes roughly 1.3 billion light years away, orbiting each other and then merging into a single black hole.

There is much theorizing about if anything exists after you go through a black hole: an alternate universe or nothing. Also, under Einstein’s theory of general relativity, gravity can bend time. This leads to the idea that the space-time continuum could be folded. This would allow for faster-than-light time travel and possibly even time travel.

My series of doors represent these concepts. You can look at them on the wall, walk around others.