“Aphelios I” 厄斐琉斯一号

“Aphelios I” is a one-minute lopped surrealistic moving image installation artwork about the visual assumption of emergent spacetime theory, partly empowered by an AI graphic program as well as overlaying visual elements from my own still images.

“Gravity is a hologram,” inspired by Monica Jinwoo Kang, a Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Fellow in Theoretical Physics at Caltech, when explaining the holographic principle, a key tenet of Zurek’s model. This principle, which was realized using string theory in the 1990s, implies that phenomena in three dimensions, such as gravity, can emerge out of a flat two-dimensional surface. More specifically, gravity and spacetime are thought to emerge from the entanglement of particles taking place on the 2-D surface. Entanglement occurs when subatomic particles are connected across space; the particles act as a single entity without being in direct contact with each other, somewhat like a flock of starlings.

In Zurek and Adhikari’s proposed experiment, they explain that gravity and spacetime are emerge out of the quantum horizon. That fuzziness would represent the pixelation of spacetime and “Aphelios I” is an abstracted piece showing where time differs between reality. It comes from Greek, "apo" means "far apart, away" and "Helios" is the Titan god of the sun. In astronomy, "aphelion" means "the point in the orbit of an object where it is farthest from the Sun" also has the same origin. I programmed a self-rotating eye in the middle as a symbolism of human beings’ craving for the knowledge to those deepest secrets of the universe.

The emergence phenomenon in truly magical but not mysterious in our lives. We see flocks of birds and schools of fish undertake coherent motion in groups, though they are really made up of individual animals. We say that the group behaviour is emergent. It may be that something that arises out of the pixelation of spacetime has just been given the name gravity because people don’t yet understand what the guts of spacetime are, but are we ready?are we ready?

“Aphelios I”是一件循环播放的超现实主义图像装置艺术作品，关于涌现时空理论的视觉假设，部分由人工智能图形程序提供支持，并叠加了我自己的静止图像中的视觉元素。

“重力是全息图“受到加州理工学院理论物理学 Sherman Fairchild 博士后研究员 Monica Jinwoo Kang 的启发，在解释全息原理时，这是 Zurek 模型的一个关键原则。 这个原理是在 1990 年代通过弦理论实现的，它意味着三维中的现象，例如引力，可以从平坦的二维表面中显现出来。 更具体地说，重力和时空被认为是从二维表面上发生的粒子纠缠中产生的。 当亚原子粒子跨越空间连接时，就会发生纠缠； 这些粒子作为一个整体而不相互直接接触，有点像一群欧椋鸟。

在 Zurek 和 Adhikari 提出的实验中，他们解释说引力和时空出现在量子视界之外。 这种模糊性代表了时空的像素化，而“Aphelios I”是一个抽象的作品，展示了现实之间的时间差异。 它来自希腊语，“apo”的意思是“相隔甚远”，“Helios”是泰坦太阳神。 在天文学中，“远日点”的意思是“物体轨道上离太阳最远的一点”，也同源。 我在中间编程了一个自转的眼睛，作为人类渴望了解宇宙最深层秘密的象征。

出现现象在我们的生活中确实神奇但并不神秘。 我们看到鸟群和鱼群以群体的形式进行连贯运动，尽管它们实际上是由个体动物组成的。 我们说群体行为是涌现的。 可能是时空像素化产生的东西刚刚被命名为引力。我们还不了解时空的量子内核是什么，但我们真的准备好了吗？