The opening reception for ET's major new exhibit, All Possible Photons:
The Conceptual and Cognitive Art of Feynman Diagrams, will take place on
Saturday September 15 from 1.00 to 7.00pm. ET will give artist tours at 1.15,
at 3.15, and at 5.15. (The show is now open for previews.) Free events, ET Modern.

This thread below served during the last 18 months as an on-going rough draft
of the exhibit essay now published as a pdf (above) and also in paper.

Now back to the original thread that began August 2011:

My studio colleagues Andy Conklin and Brad McDougall bent and welded the
stainless steel based on my templates and consequent editing of the steel.

Our stainless Feynman diagrams are mounted on an Airstream trailer,
a reference to Richard Feynman's 1975 Dodge Maxivan which he customized
with a diagrammatic mural. Below are pictures of my 2004 visit to Feynman's van,
then garaged in Long Beach, California. (An account of that visit is in Michael
Shermer's Scientific American article "The Feynman-Tufte Principle".)

Shown here above in our sculpture studio, the Airstream trailer is
a proposed Mars Exploration Vehicle, or perhaps an Intergalactic
Explorer, and is part of a larger sculpture (Rocket Science #3) in
the Rocket Science #1 and Rocket Science #2 sequence.

Since the Feynman diagrams describe universal events in Nature,
intelligent extra-terrestrial life may well know all about them.
On this point, see the Pioneer Space Plaque Redesign.

I wrote about (and gently redesigned) Feynman diagrams
in Beautiful Evidence, pages 76-77 shown below.

These pages also provide explanations of the diagrams
used on the Airstream Interplanetary Explorer.




Feynman diagrams enumerate all possible sequences for a fixed
set of quantum objects and events. Therefore a complete set provides
intriguing design permutations and optical experiences.

Greg Mahlon's example below shows a small multiple of the 120
possible event-sequences for 6-photon scattering by means of
Bill Dimm's helpful computer program at FeynDiagram.com

Source: http://feyndiagram.com/examples/photon6.php

-- Edward Tufte