Vincent van Gogh accidentally solved a complex physics problem while inside an asylum. In 2004, scientists analyzed The Starry Night, they found something magical. His swirling brushstrokes perfectly match Kolmogorov’s formula for fluid turbulence. This formula describes how energy flows through the universe. Physicists of his time could not... prove it, Van Gogh did it with paint. Through pure intuition during severe psychosis, Van Gogh’s brush captured the universe's invisible, chaotic geometry.show more

Shlain’s theory is art precedes physics breakthroughs

Don’t forget The Rest of The Story…Seen through the Mushroom Intelligence of psilocybin mushrooms or something similar in Shaman Culture. It’s easy to see such things, when The Mother Intelligence allows for it.

Amazing. How do they know it was psychosis? People figuring out what used to be great mysteries in our universe have so often been dismissed as crazy. Maybe it doesn’t always have to be pathologized.

Now I understand, what you try to say to me. Of how you suffered for your sanity and how you tried to set them free. They did not listen, they did not know how. Perhaps their listen now!

schizo sees what the scientist miss

Love The Starry Night.

I took meds for psychosis for months triggered by my autism, during those crisis I isolate, I create music, I write entire ebooks, workout plans, read research, paint, sketch, arrange objects geometrically, create images by hand and computer and I forget to eat and many other things. Creative process and self-harming settles, when crisis does.

This is a depiction of "two persons" as Irises. It looks like they're in full discussion or something. Remember Art represents our thoughts as well as our lived experiences. Van Gogh certainly had a strange but unique way of speaking with his paintbrush.

My friend who many years later became a nun (it takes 8 years!) used to love this painting, and she carried the grace of God with her. I always felt a profound and instant intuitive sense of peace around her. And my pup also! 🌦️🌌🕊️

I have the Starry Night driftwood castle

It's said that artists, musicians and others were able to make better works under the influence. Maybe VAn Gogh's third eye became active.

I believe us humans can intuit divine truths when within coherence and using a mirror either it be painting or something like AI.

The great mind of Van Gogh, filled with turmoil, led to clarity.

Plus Turbulence is one of the hardest unsolved problems in physics. Werner Heisenberg said he’d ask God about it. But in 1889, Van Gogh (mid-psychosis in a French asylum) painted brushstrokes that precisely follow Kolmogorov’s formula for turbulent flow. A formula that wouldn’t exist for another 52 years. Scientists confirmed this in 2006 by digitizing the painting and measuring luminance between pixels.

You might enjoy the connection of Van Gogh's starry night to skyrmions. It's an intersection of science, art, the future that would make a physicist out of anyone contemplating scientific study. The ubiquitous skyrmions (come on sizes cosmic to nano, and look remarkably like swirlly starry night) are at the frontier of next gen memory chips, surface acoustic waves, and imminent proof of the exlusive monopole. Thanks for this!

The Starry Night.

He depicted disturbing scenes in his work of art as well but folks are blind to it. Like bloody scenes in the Irises. Look deep to see someone carrying two kids, there's a face of a chief of some kind with a hook in his mouth, and in the background folks are looking the other way

Van Gogh did not solve turbulence mathematically. What is remarkable is that his intuition captured statistical patterns that physicists would only formalize decades later. Sometimes nature is recognized long before it is understood.

@grok explain. Have fun with this.

Van Gogh did have an ear … errr eye for painting..🤔🚀🫣🫡

And they always laugh at us crazy ones. Right now- theres a frog thumping to get out of the dog food sack. About the palm of my hand in size. Guess I'll go get the little bastard out and hope he doesnt get loose in my apartment. -shit posters cat may have a new pet

Wonder if Starry Night 🌃 is mostly everyone's, who enjoys viewing art, favorite Van Gogh creation.

@grok explain the mechanics through Sergey Karavashkin’s ether lens 🌀

How did he PROVE it? The flows resemble a river or creek. He did a good job mimicking fluid motion, but nothing at all was proven.

Amazing! Maybe genius isn't just about understanding reality—it's about seeing patterns others can't.

There was a documentary years ago about Vincent van Gogh that theorized he might have been epileptic as he was known for having “fits”. If this is the case, that might explain the halos around the lights as epileptics sometimes see halos before having a seizure.

This character walks on bloody ground behind the mayhem in Irises. That which is seen by the eyes. Irises, get it?

Maybe he actually saw the turbulence. His paintings give off energy when you stand and observe. Maybe because the brush strokes are so pronounced

@grok, this seems kind of outlandish but what do I know? Can you help me understand this better? did Vincent van Gogh actually solve some kind of technical fluids problem with art, or is this a feel-good fantastical story?

van gogh was insanely talented but “solved a physics problem” is doing way too much

Why nobody ever say that when I went to the exhibit?!?!?!?! I love fluid flows obviously. That Ear scene hits different.

Makes sense that I see organized chaos when I look at a Van Gogh.

Did Van Gogh intentionally solve a physics problem? No. But that's what makes this so incredible. Through pure intuition, observation, and artistic genius, he painted patterns that mirror the hidden geometry of nature itself

C'est l'Or-Loge de la VIE,le Mouvement perpetuel,la Vibration,l'onde du Monde...Il a absolument tout compris,il s'est meme reconnu en ce mouvement pour l'avoir si bien dessiné,il sait que tout est connecté comme les rouages d'une Montre de LUXE SUISSE🩵🩶🩷