"National Schools' Observatory: Dark Matter" Show Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015

在我们兼收并蓄的团队在前几届皇家园艺学会展会上取得成功的基础上，我们将代表国家学校天文台在2015年切尔西花展上展示一个‘Fresh’类别的花园。花园将通过引力透镜提供对暗物质效果的戏剧性、艺术性和建筑性的诠释。通过一门学科(天文学)来接触另一门学科(花园)，与通常的渠道相比，会有不同的、更广泛的受众参与进来。切尔西花展吸引了大量花园爱好者和普通公众，他们中的许多人通常不会从事天文学和天体物理学。《暗物质花园》恰逢2015年爱因斯坦广义相对论和欧洲光年的百年诞辰，非常及时、令人兴奋，而且绝对是一种新鲜感。

Building on the success of our eclectic team at previous Royal Horticultural Society shows, we will exhibit a garden in the 'Fresh' category at Chelsea Flower Show 2015 on behalf of the National Schools' Observatory. The garden will provide a dramatic artistic and architectural interpretation of the effect of Dark Matter via gravitational lensing. By approaching one subject (astronomy) through the medium of another (a garden), a different and wider audience is engaged than by following the usual channels. Chelsea Flower Show attracts a huge audience of garden lovers and general public, many of whom would not normally engage with astronomy and astrophysics. The Dark Matter Garden is timed to coincide with the centenary of the publication of Einstein's theory of General Relativity and the European Year of Light in 2015 and is timely, exciting and definitely 'Fresh'.