Opinion | Is wine art? A combination of nature and human values, it inspires emotions like an artist’s painting – but only when it’s a good bottle
- Physicist Carlo Rovelli says life is made up of brief collisions, or ‘kisses’, in time and space. This applies to wine, as nature and human values converge
- Just as a painting transmits an artist’s idea, wine is the manifestation of this interplay, and evokes emotion like art. As long as it’s of decent quality
Physicist Carlo Rovelli says humans don’t understand the world as made of objects, rather “we understand the world as made of kisses, or things like kisses – happenings”.
Rovelli is a co-developer of loop quantum gravity theory and author of bestselling books Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (2014) and The Order of Time (2017), in which he poetically establishes that all of reality is interaction.
This simple truth is both scientific and philosophical, and it unfolds with unexpected nuance in his work.
If a defining characteristic of an object such as a rock is that it remains equal to itself, a kiss is an event between two objects limited in space and time.
Here’s a quick experiment – go kiss someone you like in the name of science right now and try to find that kiss tomorrow. Where did it go?
