2021 · 3D-printed resin, steel armature
Tachyon Crystal
A geometric study of the theoretical tachyon — a particle that exists only in motion faster than light, simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. Form as pure velocity.
About the Work
In theoretical physics, tachyons are hypothetical particles constrained to move faster than light. Unlike ordinary matter — which requires infinite energy to accelerate to light speed — tachyons require infinite energy to slow down below it. They exist only in perpetual, superluminal motion. At rest, they do not exist.
The Tachyon Crystal explores what such a form might look like if it could be held still long enough to see. It is a crystalline geometric structure that suggests both the stability of crystal lattice and the impossibility of stasis for something that exists only through velocity. Every plane of the piece catches light differently. Every angle reveals a form that seems to have arrived from somewhere faster than here.
The piece is part of the Living Duality project's engagement with theoretical physics as a philosophical language — a way of describing properties of reality that ordinary vocabulary cannot reach. Where the Flexahedron explores transformation, and the Hypercube explores dimensionality, the Tachyon Crystal explores the relationship between form and motion, between being and becoming.
The crystal structure also references the work of Walter Russell, whose unified field theory proposed that matter is light in a different vibrational state. The Tachyon Crystal is light, crystallized.