{"id":3064,"date":"2014-01-01T19:20:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T19:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=3064"},"modified":"2014-09-16T08:47:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T08:47:19","slug":"7-duda","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=3064","title":{"rendered":"Dan Duda: Michael Michlmayr Meet Albert Einstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\">Return to Current Table of contents<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Dan Duda is President of Central Pennsylvania MENSA.\u00a0 He writes on issues related to particle physics for various publications.\u00a0 He has extensive experience in brand development and enhancement, market research, and strategic planning.\u00a0 He is a graduate of the State University of New York and he completed a special executive \u201cfast track\u201d MBA program at Harvard University.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>\u201cThe most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. <br \/>It is the source of all true art and science.\u201d &#8230; <\/i>Albert Einstein<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3268\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Galveston5_61-20-300-Arbeitskopie-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3268\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Galveston5_61-20-300-Arbeitskopie-3-1024x335.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Michael Michlmayr from the series &quot;Galveston&quot; 2009\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3268\" height=\"209\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Galveston5_61-20-300-Arbeitskopie-3-1024x335.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Galveston5_61-20-300-Arbeitskopie-3-150x49.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Galveston5_61-20-300-Arbeitskopie-3-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Galveston5_61-20-300-Arbeitskopie-3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Michael Michlmayr<br \/>from the series &#8220;Timespaces Galveston&#8221; 2009<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/portfolio\/2014\/issue-7\/michael\/album\/\">Michael Michlmayr<\/a> Full Portfolio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" style=\"margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 5px; float: right; width: 320px; height: 240px; border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ez73tNyf1go?rel=0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhat does photographer Michael Michlmayr have in common with physicist Albert Einstein?\u00a0 More than you may think.\u00a0 In fact, there\u2019s a surprising range of congruence between science and art.\u00a0 What we learn about the quantum world, for example, is beyond our intuitive experience.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t gained this knowledge from the use of our five senses, at least not directly.\u00a0 What we have done is extend those senses with telescopes, microscopes, \u00a0radio antennae, the Large Hadron Collider, etc.\u00a0 Technology has allowed us to surpass the horizons of our innate senses and enter worlds that far exceed our core abilities of perception.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3256\" style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ziel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3256\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ziel-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Michael Michlmayr from &quot;Derniera&quot; series 2008\" class=\" wp-image-3256\" height=\"204\" width=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ziel-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ziel-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ziel-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ziel.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Michael Michlmayr<br \/>from &#8220;Derniera&#8221; series 2008<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This fact reminds me of one of my college professors who described art as a way to express something that our usual vocabulary is incapable of articulating\u2014a way of communicating feelings and perceptions that go beyond the ability of more mundane human senses and interaction.\u00a0 So, in a way, art is the technique that communicates feelings and emotions that supersede standard communications.\u00a0 And, for Michael Michlmayr, the camera is his \u201ctechnology\u201d for extending our senses beyond the limits of our natural human horizon.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" style=\"margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 5px; float: right; width: 320px; height: 240px; border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-fgngdsMEyE?rel=0\"><\/iframe>Now for an example\u2014and this one\u2019s a mind-bender\u2014many scientists feel that time doesn\u2019t exist\u2014at least not as we perceive it.\u00a0 According to Einstein, <i>\u201cpeople like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.\u201d\u00a0 <\/i>His view was that everything that happens does so simultaneously in sort of a solid landscape.\u00a0 It\u2019s like an old vinyl record\u2014the stylus intersects the groove causing awareness of the vibrations stimulated at that specific point\u2014but the whole record and all its grooves still exist at one time in spite of the fact that our attention is riveted to just one spot.\u00a0 <i>(For those too young to remember vinyl records, think of the laser of a CD player interacting with the pits on a disk.\u00a0 And, if you\u2019re too young for that, you\u2019ll have to develop your own metaphor).<\/p>\n<p><\/i>Interestingly a primary theme in Michael Michlmayr\u2019s photography is time.\u00a0 And, very interestingly, he likes to portray time as being non-sequential.\u00a0 This not only fits Einstein\u2019s view of time, but also his theory of relativity in which a sequence of events is not universally constant, but, rather, dependent on the relative motion of the observer.\u00a0 Particle physicists have also found that the smallest pieces of the universe are not bound to travel according to any established arrow of time.\u00a0 They move forwards and\/or backwards motivated by\u2014we know not what.\u00a0 And what\u2019s even stranger is that, given Einstein\u2019s claim that time doesn\u2019t exist (at least not as we perceive it), our ability to visualize the quantum world seems impossible.\u00a0 And yet, here we have art attempting to break that barrier.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Assuming Einstein was right (and his track record is pretty impressive) what would the landscape of reality look like from his view of time?\u00a0 That\u2019s the mystery Michael tackles with his camera, and tries to answer with his photography.\u00a0 His photo collection <i>\u201cTime Spaces \/ Coulises\u201d<\/i> is a prime example.\u00a0 It shows science and art coming together from two different directions, like protons in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.\u00a0 And, in a similar way, his intent is to break through to a deeper reality held beneath the surface.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3261\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/station2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3261\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/station2-1024x297.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Michael Michlmayr from &quot; Timespaces: Station&quot; 2007\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3261\" height=\"185\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/station2-1024x297.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/station2-150x43.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/station2-300x87.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/station2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Michael Michlmayr<br \/>from &#8221; Timespaces: Station&#8221;<br \/>2007<\/p><\/div>\n<p><i>\u201cMy background is not in science,\u201d <\/i>Says Michael Michlmayr.\u00a0 <i>\u201cBut I sense these inconsistencies about time.\u00a0 My idea is to disturb the time-line showing things completely together in one space.\u00a0 I can shift the time line by showing one individual in different spaces and then by including different individuals all moving in opposite directions.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Pioneering quantum physicist Werner Heisenberg, famous for the <i>Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle,<\/i> said <i>\u201cThe conception of objective reality\u2026has thus <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" style=\"margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 5px; float: right; width: 320px; height: 240px; border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fmGAXnDqQ4g?rel=0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n evaporated\u2026into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 Could art (perhaps subconsciously) be trying to augment the <i>clarity of mathematics<\/i> with a visual conception?\u00a0 Think about the revolution in art that started with the French impressionists.\u00a0 At the time the stunned art establishment felt that, with the arrival of the camera, the need for painting was over.\u00a0 It seemed that with a click of a shutter a camera could accomplish in seconds what a portrait painter might spend months, or sometimes years, producing.\u00a0 How devastating that must have seemed to the portrait artist of the day.\u00a0 Could the impressionist movement have been inspired through, what Karl Jung called, the <i>\u201cCollective Unconscious\u201d<\/i>?<i> <\/i>Might the camera have motivated artists to use their skills to look deeper into reality to express feelings beyond what they felt a camera could reveal?\u00a0 And, interestingly, the quantum revolution began in earnest only years later.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3260\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/scene1M-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3260\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/scene1M--300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Michael Michlmayr From &quot;Derniera&quot; series 2008\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3260\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/scene1M--300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/scene1M--150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/scene1M--1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/scene1M-.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Michael Michlmayr<br \/>From &#8220;Derniera&#8221; series 2008<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And now, with artists such as Michael Michlmayr, the camera appears to be picking up the gauntlet dropped by the series of painting innovations that began with the impressionists.\u00a0 According to Picasso <i>\u201cArt is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 Lie or not, his view of forms is said to reflect recent insights from String Theory which advocate the idea that reality exists in eleven dimensions (and the math bears this out).\u00a0 Many of his cubist works can be interpreted as a view of an object covering more than the three spatial dimensions we perceive with our ordinary senses.\u00a0 Michlmayr\u2019s photography tends to break the same barriers taking the viewer beyond the limits of everyday insight and closer to the reality hinted at by current science.\u00a0 Noted photography critic, Karen Seidner (Vienna) sums up his work this way: \u201c<i>At first glance, Michael Michlmayr\u2019s works, in which he addresses his immediate urban environment, seem to be skillful snapshot photography\u2014only when the visitor takes time to examine the spaces represented in them closely does he begin to notice that a constructivist game with reality is being played here. \u201c<br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3249\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mike-frame.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3249\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mike-frame-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Michael Michlmayr From the series &quot;View&quot; 2003\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3249\" height=\"164\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mike-frame-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mike-frame-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mike-frame.jpg 527w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Michael Michlmayr From the series &#8220;View&#8221; 2003<\/p><\/div>\n<p>NY Times photography critic Susan Sontag said \u201c<i>The realism of photography creates confusion as to what is real.<\/i>\u201d<i>\u00a0 <\/i>That quote, slightly altered fits the current state of quantum mechanics perfectly: \u201c<i>The realism of mathematics creates confusion as to what is real.<\/i>\u201d<i> <\/i>Getting back to the nature of time, scientists at MIT are studying the structures of the brain that cause us to perceive time as sequential.\u00a0 They have discovered <i>\u201c\u2026how two neural circuits in the brain work together to control the formation of such time-linked memories\u2026the researchers used optogenetics, a technology that allows specific populations of neurons to be turned on or off with light to demonstrate the interplay of these two circuits.\u201d <\/i>[Science Daily, January 23, 2014].\u00a0 Whatever time is, science appears to be on the path to explaining why we perceive it, incorrectly, as a serial phenomenon.<i><br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I5rExaKLEoU\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I5rExaKLEoU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\u00a0 <br \/>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I5rExaKLEoU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Science fiction is brimming with examples of non-sequential time.\u00a0 There seems to be no end of analysis and speculation about the closing segment of <i>2001:<b> <\/b>A Space Odyssey, <\/i>for example.\u00a0 But the fact that Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke intended to portray non-sequential time is not in doubt.\u00a0 The various Star Trek series and the movies frequently dealt with this theme.\u00a0 Five Starship Enterprises from different eras meet at a \u201ctemporal distortion\u201d; a young Mr. Spock receives philosophical guidance from a very senior version of himself.\u00a0 These are just a few of the many attempts by the genre to help us visualize this fact of nature that is so difficult for us to grasp. <\/p>\n<p>Going back a few centuries, Immanuel Kant weighed in on the limits of our senses with his concept of <i>\u201cthe thing in itself.\u201d<\/i> [Critique of Pure Reason]\u00a0 Simply stated, Kant believed that we never have a direct experience of things because all of our perceptions are filtered through our senses.\u00a0 His idea was that there is a chasm between what goes on in our brains as we digest impulses from sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste compared to what is really going on with objects outside of our heads.\u00a0 He called this the \u201csubject-object problem.\u201d\u00a0 Man cannot, according to Kant, perceive reality\u2014he can only grasp indirectly from what his limited senses tell him.\u00a0 It can be speculated that both science and art are attempts to bridge that chasm.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3259\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P9192793.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3259\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P9192793-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Michael Michlmayr from &quot;Derniera&quot; series, 2008\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3259\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P9192793-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P9192793-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P9192793-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P9192793.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Michael Michlmayr<br \/>from &#8220;Derniera&#8221; series, 2008<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Earlier I made a reference to Karl Jung\u2019s \u201cCollective Unconscious.\u201d\u00a0 In a way, his thinking is an extension of Kant\u2019s ideas.\u00a0 Along with Sigmund Freud, Jung made significant contributions to our understanding of what goes on beneath the surface of our awareness.\u00a0 Perhaps his most startling insight was the idea that, at a deep level, we are connected to the universe, past, present, and future.\u00a0 And that that connection has a subconscious impact on our thoughts and behavior.\u00a0 Could that connection be a driving force behind science, art,<b> <\/b>and philosophy?\u00a0 In Jung\u2019s own words <i>\u201cAs far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being\u2026The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night\u2026\u201d<\/i> \u00a0As you take in the works of Michael Michlmayr,<b> <\/b>consider the vision that inspires his art.\u00a0 Think about Jung\u2019s perceptions as a possible driving force behind his message to us.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3258\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Windows_unvisible-views-7_48x24_300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3258\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Windows_unvisible-views-7_48x24_300-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Michael Michlmayr From these series: &quot;Invisible Views&quot; 2008\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3258\" height=\"320\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Windows_unvisible-views-7_48x24_300-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Windows_unvisible-views-7_48x24_300-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Windows_unvisible-views-7_48x24_300-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Windows_unvisible-views-7_48x24_300.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Michael Michlmayr<br \/>From these series: &#8220;Invisible Views&#8221; 2008<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We might also consider other definitions of art for comparison.\u00a0 Most often these definitions point to a search for understanding reality beyond the obvious reach of our standard perception.\u00a0 For example, Frank Lloyd Wright said, <i>\u201cArt is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 Aristotle said, <i>\u201cThe aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 And closer to the point, Minor White was driven by a search for universal meanings as portrayed in his images.\u00a0 His search was, no doubt, fueled by his experiments with Zen Buddhism which provides an archetypal view of reality as being one thing, in one time.\u00a0 So, what is Michael Michlmayr trying to tell us?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" style=\"margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 5px; float: right; width: 320px; height: 240px; border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-fgngdsMEyE?rel=0\"><\/iframe>Finally to the point of this article.\u00a0 I sense that there is a prime directive, of sorts, imprinted in our DNA that impels mankind, overall, to push toward a true understanding of reality.\u00a0 Somehow we seem to be emerging into a realization that there is far more to existence than can be digested by our five senses.\u00a0 The manifestation of this drive is rarely obvious, but it is there.\u00a0 We see it in the incredible insights revealed by science; we see it in the wisdom of philosophers through the ages; we see it in the leading edges of art that mystify most but provide visions of perceptions beyond current horizons to many; and we see it in the photographic works of Michael Michlmayr, who is finding new ways to use the camera as a tool to push us beyond the limits of our ordinary senses.\u00a0 In the immortal words of William Blake, <i>\u201cIf the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear as it is, infinite.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 And, if you flip the \u201cinfinite\u201d coin to the other side, you\u2019ll find \u201ctimeless,\u201d which is the essence of Michael Michlmayr\u2019s message.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/portfolio\/2014\/issue-7\/michael\/album\/\">Michael Michlmayr<\/a> Full Portfolio<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Return to Current Table of contents Dan Duda is President of Central Pennsylvania MENSA.\u00a0 He writes on issues related to particle physics for various publications.\u00a0 He has extensive experience in brand development and enhancement, market research, and strategic planning.\u00a0 He &hellip; 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