In the Summer of 2009, Dick Termes received an email from publishers Editions Flammarion who were creating a French translation of Stephen Hawking’s book, The Brief History of Time (Une Belle Histoire du Temps). They had recently discovered the sphere “The Big Bang” on the internet and wanted to know if they could use it for the cover of his book. Termes admits, at first, he thought it was a hoax, but eventually decided to give them permission. Low and behold, the request proved to be legitimate and the Termesphere now graces the cover of one of the most popular science books on cosmology. Termes says it made him aware of how far-reaching the internet can be, even for people who live way out in South Dakota.
The Big Bang Termesphere is basically a dark and light sphere with concentric circles projecting out from one side and ending on the other side. As the circles progress from one side to the other, the width changes from small to large fitting within the opposite concentric circles. Termes used a checkerboard system on this piece to shows that everything comes from the same element, the circle.
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