If you’re not working this Labor Day and you’re looking for something fun to do with the whole family, head on over to the Arizona Science Center. Through the interactive exhibit, “A Mirror Maze: Numbers in Nature,” you can explore nature’s puzzles, patterns and mazes.
The exhibit features things like one of the most challenging mirror mazes. It’s 1,800 square feet of geometrically arranged mirrors with hidden surprises and a secret room.
“It’s just a really fun opportunity,” said Sari Custer, the chief curiosity officer for the Arizona Science Center.
She took us through the maze.
“Even I get lost and I’ve been through like a hundred times,” she said. “It can take a long time to go through here, depending on fast you go.”
Custer says a lot of people are afraid of math and start to tune out if someone starts talking about it, but this exhibit aims to change that.
“You start to see where math shows up in nature, in architecture… all around us,” she said.
You can learn how nature’s spirals help hungry hawks find their unwitting prey and interact with the famous Vitruvian Man, a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, which illustrates the human body's ideal math proportions. You can learn how symmetry makes each of our faces unique and find out what helped Olympic swimming Michael Phelps swim so fast!
The exhibit gives visitors a chance to learn how Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff was "hands down" one of the best pianists ever. It also helps you uncover the technology that keeps robots from bumping into things and learn how random musical notes can turn into world-class symphonies.
For more information on the exhibit and tickets, just go to the Arizona Science Center's website.
