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The effect of gravity on the universe

By David Johnson 2006

David Johnson

Dimensions
155cm x 190cm x 55cm

Steel box, with etched text, containing my body weight of meat, bones and blood. Blackboard with calculation of the gravitational effect of that much mass in slowing the recession of the (then) farthest known galaxy. Body and mind, science - cosmology.

David Johnson

D J David Johnson

All the days

Ghosts (remembering my father)

Et in Arcadia Ego

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