Dick Slansky - Physicist, Los Alamos
Date1988
Mediumchromogenic color print
Dimensions20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, museum purchase, 1989 General Obligation Bonds
Object numberPC1990.69.51
DescriptionThis color photograph is of physicist Dick Slansky with a written inscription and signature by Slansky underneath. Slansky is posing sitting behind a desk with a pen in his hand.The inscription reads:
The Nature we observe around us, and its features that reasonable people can agree on in human communication, is the basis of what I call reality. The scope of reality ranges from the cosmos, to the physical, biological and social realities in our immediate world, down to the microscopic world of subatomic particles. There are parts of these worlds that are not well explored and then there is a lack of agreement about their realities. "Reality" is formulated through exploration, analysis, and finally agreement among reasonable people. Sometimes people of a previous age made errors and we have to reassess the historically defined reality. I expect we too will make many errors on the identification and description of the edge of our reality. These will likely be changed in the future.
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