Space plus time equals T-shirts

The Print Room director Chris Brun (left) checks out a T-shirt with an image of Albert Einstein...
The Print Room director Chris Brun (left) checks out a T-shirt with an image of Albert Einstein squeegeed on by Iris Gallagher (right), to celebrate the end of the 100th-anniversary celebrations of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Photo by Linda Robertson.
Time and space may have moved on, but Iris Gallagher will always have a memento of the day she celebrated the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

The 9-year-old was one of about 40 people who attended a screen-printing workshop on Saturday at Otago Museum, where The Print Room director Chris Brun taught them how to squeegee an Einstein-inspired graphic on to T-shirts.

Museum public engagement manager Rachel Cooper said the event was to celebrate the closing weekend of the ‘‘Einstein: 100 Years of the Theory of General Relativity'' exhibition at the museum.

Einstein's theory of general relativity was published in 1915 and continues to be used by modern physicists to provide a unified description of gravity as a geometric property of space and time.

Ms Cooper said it was a great opportunity for participants to link the arts and science, and to explore important scientific theories at the exhibition before it closed yesterday.

The exhibition was developed with the University of Otago's department of mathematics and statistics, in association with the University's Centre for Science Communication and the Otago Museum.

-john.lewis@odt.co.nz

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