Forget the spray-decay of trillions upon trillions of subatomic particle collisions. Turns out all of physics is a chaotic, entangling, beautiful mess--especially one of its most rudimentary mainstays: the drawing board.That's the idea behind Momentum, a new photo series by photographer Alejandro Guijarro. Staking out the offices of top-tier quantum physicists at UC-Berkeley, Cambridge, Stanford, Oxford, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Guijarro caught the mind-melting pushes and pulls of some of the physical world's most elemental questions and mysteries being sussed out, wrestled with, and ultimately undone--erased--from chalk boards.He says it's a way for him to both call bullshit on the long-presumed "authority" of the photographic record and to riff off contradictions, which quantum physics, much like "seeing is believing," thrives on."I'm using photography to question itself," Guijarro tells Wired.A beautiful, questioning mess.

All photos courtesy Alejandro Guijarro. Reach Brian at brian@motherboard.tv. @thebanderson
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