Exhibition/ THE SPACE-TIME OF MODERN PHYSICS
The Hall illustrates the modern concept of space, and how space unites with time to form the space-time that according to Einstein's theories of relativity is the true 'container' of all things.
A revolutionary idea that you can explore in a special section, described in the centre of the room by the modern armillary sphere according to Einstein, which ideally closes the long journey on time and space that began in the first room with the armillary sphere of Aristotle and Tolomeo.
A central idea in contemporary science, since it is the space-time curved and dilated by matter and energy that contains and supports the modern conception of cosmos, which you can explore in all its aspects on the large touch-screen that concludes the room and the tour.
Albert Einstein
The first section of the room explores the premises of this idea. They start in the mathematics of the 19th century when Gauss intuited - after more than 20 centuries of futile attempts - the true nature of Euclid's fifth postulate.
A postulate that expressed a relative truth whose negation created those curved spaces where the laws already experimented by painting in the previous two centuries applied
