Research

So today I have taken the plunge and started the task of researching the stimuli to hopefully understand some of the concepts of what were working towards..
I started with Brian Cox, and Loved it :) not like me, but i found it fascinating and really has got my enthusiasm up again for the piece.. still not sure what i'm going to do yet, but I'm not going to get stressed and just hope that it comes to me in time?!
I've copied the link for 'Wonders of the Universe'.. just because I can! 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0101h6w/Wonders_of_the_Universe_Messengers/


As Einstein is the main part of the stimuli, It makes sense to understand him next. I didn't find much that jumped out to me to use as a performance, however I did discover as a child he used to dream about the story of the magnetic compass. The compass convinced him that there had to be ''something behind things, something deeply hidden'' I felt there was something in this that we could use, its a good starting part anyway!!
When it came to text... I thought about using some quotes from his essays or particular quotes:


"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Thats just a couple of examples, but theres a whole collection of quotes some very useless but some that are quite humorous that could work?! http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html


However, I believe the best idea for text is the book we were given in the box of stimuli. Einsteins dreams, 


''A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar.

Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein’s Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence''
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/101512/einsteins-dreams-by-alan-lightman/9781400077809/


however, the chapter most interested with me, and perhaps Jim if were working together is '19th April 1905' In this chapter, the love affairs of a man are described. The first woman is manipulative. The second becomes a life-long companion. In a second world, the man stays with the first woman, but their relationship is unstable and full of pain. In a third world, when he meets the first woman for the second time, their chat is curt and brief and he feels empty.
These three different scenarios are said to be occuring at the same time. Time is described as having three dimensions. It may move in any different direction of time, and will move in all directions. This leads to the idea of how people consider decisions: lightly or seriously.


This text has really enthused me and I will be sharing it with class on Tuesday :D