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atomystic






                                                                                             TRIVIA!
     F I R S T   T H E A T E R   O R G A N I Z E D   A N D
     P E R F O R M E D   B Y   S T U D E N T S !



     On 13 December 2016, a group of         This theatre were directed by
     students from SIF 2005 Statistical      Nurhaliza Bt Huzaini ,written by
     Physics class organized a mini theatre   Wilson Lee Hui Seng and assisted by
     called Atomystic. Atomystic were held   executive directors,Prof Sithi V
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     in Main Auditorium,Faculty of           Muniandy and Dr Roselina itself. Tan
                                                                                             .
                                                                                      P  R  O  F  S  I  T  H  I  V  M  U  N  I  A  N  D  Y
     Education,University of                 Jia Sheen played the main character
                                                                                      D  R     R  O  S  E  L  I  N  A     J  O  H  A  R  I
     Malaya.Atomystic was an idea            of Ludwig Boltzmann accompanied

                                                                                      B  I  N  T  I  M  D  K  H  I  R
     pioneered by Prof Sithi V Muniandy      by many co –actors. Brian Soo Hua
     and Dr Roselina Johari Binti Md         En were invited as guest musician
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     Khir.The auditorium were fullhouse at   from Cultural Centre UM. Mr
                                                                                      N  U  R     H  A  L  I  Z  A     B  I  N  T  I
     around 150 audiences!                   Rithaudin Abdul Kadir from Cultural
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                                             Centre gave the best prop advise
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     Atomystic was inspired by Ludwig        makes the props for this theater
                                                                                      W  I  L  S  O  N     L  E  E     H  U  I     S  E  N  G
     Boltzmann, a great physicist who        looks fantastic. Audiences gave a big
     developed statistical mechanics and     loud applause to all the characters as
     also created  the famous entropy        all of them performed well as first      P  E  R  F  O  R  M  E  D  &
     formula of S=kb ln W. In the 19th       timers.                                  O  R  G  A  N  I  Z  E  D
     century were the time where physicist   When  asked to  Prof Sithi on why he
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     were coming to accept the reality of    came up with the idea, he replied ‘’I
                                                                                      S  I  F     2  0  0  5     S  T  A  T  I  S  T  I  C  A  L
     atoms. This atoms has caused a lot of   believe Science based theatre is able
                                                                                      P  H  Y  S  I  C  S     S  T  U  D  E  N  T  S
      findings from great physicists around   to bring out human experience,
     the world until they have admitted      passion, emotion and willpower that
                                                                                      V  E  N  U  E
     that ‘’atomic hypothesis’’ as fiction.   drive any scientific endeavour and
                                                                                                               ,
                                                                                      M  A  I  N  A  U  D  I  T  O  R  I  U  M
     Atomystic re-enacts the trails of events   often ignored from account of
                                                                                      F  A  C  U  L  T  Y     O  F     E  D  U  C  A  T  I  O  N
     from discovery of atoms until the       excellence and celebration of
     intensity of this debate between the    discoveries’’.
                                                                                      A  T  T  E  N  D  E  E  S
     atomists led by Ludwig Boltzmann
     against his critics who doubted his     This Atomystic theatre were              1  5  0     P  E  O  P  L  E
     proportions and proposed alternate      sponsored by UM-LiTeR
     views based on concept of energy.       grant(RU002B-2016) and also a
                                                                                      S  P  O  N  S  O  R  E  D     B  Y
                                             project in exploring non formal              -
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     Besides that, it revolves achievements   learning and soft skills assessment
                                                                                      (  R  U  0  0  2  B  -  2  0  1  6  )   
     and tragic life of Boltzmann that        using performing art -theatre and
     suicided because his theory were        had received a lot of positive
                                                                                      By Hareehaaran A/L Mathialagan
     rejected and other physicist have       comments and  feedbacks from the
     continued the discovery of Boltzmann    audiences as they are looking
     lead to great discoveries of Avagrado   forward for more science based
     constant and Boltzmann constant,        theatre in the upcoming years!The
     convinced the world that tiny particle   fund  from the collection of ticket
     really exist.                           were donated to UNICEF MALAYSIA.
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