The art installation ER=EPR by Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand is part of the VU ART SCIENCE gallery's opening exhibition 0 Starting From Zero.
Relativity suggests that a black hole forms after a massive star collapses into a point with zero volume from which nothing , neither matter nor light, can ever escape. ER=EPR envisions coupled black holes as vortex pairs hovering through a long aquarium. Illuminating the vortices from below the body of water, an expanded laser beam creates a ceiling projection of counter rotating black holes connected by a wormhole bridge.
The artwork is a liquid analog of a theory proposed by cosmologists Juan Maldacena and Leonard Susskind . This conjecture asserts that “ER”, an Einstein Rosen bridge or wormhole, is an example of “EPR”, the Einstein Podolosky Rosen paradox, otherwise known as quantum entanglement.