ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at objects in science and use images, paintings and photographs as a metaphor to highlight problems in interpreting scientific theories and the objects they claim to create. Mimesis is only a small part of art theory, with representation of the world in art being seen as culturally and historically variable. The problem with envisaging science as the creation of 'objects' is that a Universe full of objects is rather a boring place. Nothing much happens unless the objects actually do something. It is a human characteristic to see patterns in the world, from the earliest times seeing familiar shapes of groups of stars in the sky, through to the family tree pattern of fundamental particles in physics. Werner Heisenberg's other definition, which is more applicable to science, is: "the proper conformity of the parts to one another, and to the whole".
