Backwards 2025 – 2008

Exhibition: 1.4. – 20.6.2025

With works by:

Elisa Asenbaum, Ruben Aubrecht, Thomas Born, Yikui (Coy) Gu, Marco Goldenstein, Ronald Hakel, Helen Acosta Iglesias, Draga Jovanovic, Hans Klestofer, K.U.SCH. (Renate Krätschmer, Jörg und Sito Schwarzenberger), Anna-Maria Kursawe, Dirk Müller, Erin Newell, Arnold Reinisch, Thomas Maximilian Stuck (tms), Lorelinde L.J.M. Verhees, Burchard Vossmann, Marko Zink.

Science: Franz Embacher, Vittorio Gallese, Herwig Peterlik, Hartmut Rosa, Carlo Rovelli.

Franz Embacher,
Quantum gravity and the problem of time, 2011.
Animation stills, interactive web application MovingSQuare.
Animation Elisa Asenbaum, G.A.S-station.

Franz Embacher addresses the still unsolved problem of the incompatibility of quantum theory and general relativity. Both theories originated about a century ago and are now integral parts of modern physics. However, they were developed separately, starting from different basic concepts. Today, quantum theory is successfully applied to all fundamental interactions except gravity and has withstood all previous experimental tests. The general theory of relativity is based on the concept of space-time and predicts, among other things, that the flow of time is to a certain extent determined by masses.

Dr. Franz Embacher is a theoretical physicist at the University of Vienna. His main research interests are in the fields of cosmology, quantum theory and quantum gravity, as well as the question of whether quantum theory needs to be modified when applied to the universe as a whole.

daily: 10 am–8 pm at Schaufenster