THE WEIGHT OF TIME

Interactive installation which measures time by visitors weight. How Albert Einstein can help people with weight problems.

New therapy for people obsessed with their BMI: think of Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity while measuring your weight. Get special scales created to convince you that getting fat could easily mean distortion of spacetime. Prescription balance is connected to two digital clocks and while the first one measures the proper time, the second one measures the slowing down of time related to the weight of the visitor. Experience your own private gravitational time dilation and imagine how time passes in different gravitational field.

Special thanks:
Ing. Viktor Soukal, 1978, Graduate of the Czech Technical University where he studied microelectronics. One of the creators of the award winning installation Ombea and the cyborg plant Symbiont.Currently lives in Manchester, UK.

Ing. Alexander Kuna (1978), Researcher at the Department of Standard Time and Frequency, Institute of Photonics and Electronics AS CR.