Fabrique,
dettaglio tecnico /
Fabrique,
technical detail /
Studio per la stampa
della superficie
in legno /
Study for printing
the wooden
surface /
Fabrique,
costruzione tecnica /
Fabrique,
technical construction /
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Marc Sadler
“Aureliano, do you know what wormholes are?
Einstein-Rosen bridges? You are an engineer, you should know.
Or do you deal with arboriculture only? It didn’t seem from your
talks...“
Marc Sadler told engineer Camelia, who had come to visit him in
Milan for a project. It was Friday afternoon, they were a little tired
after the working week, but the meeting was important to define
the final details of the product. Aureliano was amazed by the detour
of the conversation, since until a moment before they were talking
about cuts, thicknesses and joints.
“No, I don’t deal with arboriculture only. Remember that I also enjoyed
telling a story about imperial families in a booklet...?
No, I don’t know what an Einstein-Rosen bridge is.”
“Well then, I’ll try to explain it to you - though I’m not sure I have
understood how it works...”
“It will be fine, better than ignorance.”
“Ignorance... don’t exaggerate. You will surely have heard of space-time
tunnels.”
“Definitely! At the cinema.” “he could not refrain from saying, smiling,
Aureliano:” The film was called Interstellar, something like this: with
that good actor with the unpronounceable surname
“Matthew McConaughey.” Said Sadler, pronouncing the surname
of the actor in perfect English.
Aureliano smiled again: “However, the film is already three or four
years old. And I still haven’t talked to my daughter about the fourth
dimension, moving the books in the library ...”
“Don’t be so sure, engineer. We are in 2018, now: sooner or later we’ll
get there”
“I’m little interested in science fiction”
“Perhaps you should be more interested in it. In short, I don’t even try
to explain to you the theory - because I don’t know - but the conclu-
sions are interesting. Practically an Einstein-Rosen bridge is
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a wormhole: that is, a “shortcut” between one point and another
in the universe, the road that an imaginary caterpillar travels in
the Earth as if it were an apple, instead of travelling on the surface.
The wormhole would make it possible to cover any distance in the
curved space: in a time that is not instantaneous but infinitely inferior to
the time needed by light to cross “normal space”, that is, without short-
cuts. In complicated words: a wormhole is a topological feature
of space-time.
“And where would these wormholes be in the space?”
“So far scientists couldn’t find them in the “visible” Universe, let’s say so.
But in 2016, in Naples, researchers from the University Federico
Secondo - including an Italian, Capozziello - tried to make a prototype,
or rather a model of the Einstein-Rosen bridge. They succeeded and
discovered - by composing two sheets of graphene and a nanotube - that
the bridge, or something similar, could be built.”
“Very interesting! And do you know how that model was made?
Did it carry anything?
“A bit difficult. Meanwhile it is very small, about a millimeter. And they
discovered only that in case of certain faults, electric currents were gen-
erated in the bridge: but above all, after the publication of the experi-
ment in the International Journal of Modern Physics, nothing
more was known about it.”
“Yes, perhaps I must have read something about it on Corriere at the
time...” said Aureliano, who still didn’t understand the reason for that
speech. But he saw the hesitation in Sadler’s gray-blue eyes, as if he was
struggling to continue: so he briefly filled the silence that marked the
expectation of real news.
“In short, Sadler said “not exactly nothing at all... Then I spoke to
Capozziello, in Naples, and he explained to me how they had built
the bridge.”
“Have you even tried to repeat the experiment? What results did you get?”
Natural Genius
A DESIGN STORY - Marc Sadler
