His art, he said, comes from his work. And he is first and foremost a physicist. I'm not flaking out here. I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing. It just happened like falling off a chair.
People love it.
People want to know what it is. While a sidelight, Heller said his artwork serves an important purpose. It doesn't just educate the public about physics, it engages them and interests them in what's going on at the atomic level.