Light Zone will be the darkest place in our Centre. Its aim is to show what is light and what are its properties. Here various devices and objects will be shining. Using them you’ll be able to perform – not always simple – experiments that will help you to know the properties of light. For example:

• you’ll arrange mirrors and lenses so as to obtain  sharp picture on a screen;
• you’ll get to know if it’s possible to see an object of only one millionth of a millimeter;
• you’ll look through funny, inverting glasses that will make your left hand look as your right hand for a while;
• you’ll have the opportunity to ascertain that a ray of light is not always straight;
• you’ll talk with your companion through a lightphone – a device that transmits sound through light;
• we will put a Sun disc on a screen and you –as Galileo did ages ago – will be able to see dark spots on it;
• you’ll see how deceptive your sight can be when wall lines in a room you are in aren’t vertical;
• when you feel surfeit with fun – you’ll be able to perform a real measurement, you’ll measure the biggest speed of all: the speed of light.