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The AEI 10 m prototype interferometer facility is currently being constructed at the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover, Germany. It aims to perform experiments for future gravitational wave detectors using advanced techniques. Seismically isolated benches are planned to be interferometrically interconnected and stabilized, forming a low-noise testbed inside a 100 m ultra-high vacuum system. A well-stabilized high-power laser will perform differential position readout of 100 g test masses in a 10 m suspended arm-cavity enhanced Michelson interferometer at the crossover of measurement (shot) noise and back-action (quantum radiation pressure) noise, the so-called Standard Quantum Limit (SQL). Such a sensitivity enables experiments in the highly topical field of macroscopic quantum mechanics. In this article we introduce the experimental facility and describe the methods employed; technical details of subsystems will be covered in future papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on theoretical arguments concerning the nature of reality by Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Žižek, the article discusses how the architecture and aesthetics of the National Socialist concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau reflect a conglomerate of Nazi and Volkisch ideology, the Nazis' anti-Semitic, genocidal utopia of a world without Jews, and the actual horrors of the concentration camps.