Physics And Literature
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Author |
: Michael Tondre |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 287 |
Release |
: 2018-08-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813941462 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813941466 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Physics of Possibility by : Michael Tondre
The Physics of Possibility traces the sensational birth of mathematical physics in Victorian literature, science, and statistics. As scientists took up new breakthroughs in quantification, they showed how all sorts of phenomena—the condition of stars, atoms, molecules, and nerves—could be represented as a set of probabilities through time. Michael Tondre demonstrates how these techniques transformed the British novel. Fictions of development by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and others joined the vogue for alternative possibilities. Their novels not only reflected received pieties of maturation but plotted a wider number of deviations from the norms of reproductive adulthood. By accentuating overlooked elements of form, Tondre reveals the novel’s changing identification with possible worlds through the decades when physics became a science of all things. In contrast to the observation that statistics served to invent normal populations, Tondre brings influential modes of historical thinking to the foreground. His readings reveal an acute fascination with alternative temporalities throughout the period, as novelists depicted the categories of object, action, and setting in new probabilistic forms. Privileging fiction’s agency in reimagining historical realities, never simply sanctioning them, Tondre revises our understanding of the novel and its ties to the ascendant Victorian sciences.
Author |
: Aura Heydenreich |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 335 |
Release |
: 2021-12-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110481259 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110481251 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Physics and Literature by : Aura Heydenreich
Physics and Literature is a unique collaboration between physicists, literary scholars, and philosophers, the first collection of essays to examine together how science and literature, beneath their practical differences, share core dimensions – forms of questioning, thinking, discovering and communicating insights.This book advances an in-depth exploration of relations between physics and literature from both perspectives. It turns around the tendency to discuss relations between literature and science in one-sided and polarizing ways. The collection is the result of the inaugural conference of ELINAS, the Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science, an initiative dedicated to building bridges between literary and scientific research. ELINAS revitalizes discussion of science-literature interconnections with new topics, ideas and angles, by organizing genuine dialogue among participants across disciplinary lines. The essays explore how scientific thought and practices are conditioned by narrative and genre, fiction, models and metaphors, and how science in turn feeds into the meaning-making of literary and philosophical texts. These interdisciplinary encounters enrich reflections on epistemology, cognition and aesthetics.
Author |
: Tina May Hall |
Publisher |
: University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages |
: 159 |
Release |
: 2010-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822991137 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822991136 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Physics of Imaginary Objects by : Tina May Hall
The Physics of Imaginary Objects, in fifteen stories and a novella, offers a very different kind of short fiction, blending story with verse to evoke fantasy, allegory, metaphor, love, body, mind, and nearly every sensory perception. Weaving in and out of the space that connects life and death in mysterious ways, these texts use carefully honed language that suggests a newfound spirituality.
Author |
: Hilary Thayer Hamann |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000058229989 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Categories--on the Beauty of Physics by : Hilary Thayer Hamann
CategoriesOn the Beauty of Physics is a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary educational book that uses art, and information from a variety of disciplines to facilitate the reader'ss encounter with challenging material. It promotes scientific literacy, fosters an appreciation of the humanities, and encourages informed and imaginative connections between the sciences and the arts. Categories is a cooperative learning tool through which people (especially educators and students) can engage in academic and value-oriented discussions.
Author |
: Peter Pesic |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 026266173X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262661737 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (3X Downloads) |
Synopsis Seeing Double by : Peter Pesic
An exploration of the relationship between quantum theory and concepts of individuality and identity from ancient Greece to the present.
Author |
: A. Ravi P. Rau |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198709916 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198709919 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Beauty of Physics by : A. Ravi P. Rau
This is a book about ideas, patterns, and broad unifying themes in physics. Each chapter focuses on a different theme - such as dimensions, transformations, symmetries, and maps - beginning with simple examples accessible to all, then connecting them to more sophisticated realizations in more advanced topics of physics.
Author |
: Harry Cliff |
Publisher |
: Doubleday |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 2021-08-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780385545662 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0385545665 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch by : Harry Cliff
NAMED A BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF 2021 BY KIRKUS * An acclaimed experimental physicist at CERN takes you on an exhilarating search for the most basic building blocks of our universe, and the dramatic quest to unlock their cosmic origins. "A fascinating exploration of how we learned what matter really is, and the journey matter takes from the Big Bang, through exploding stars, ultimately to you and me." (Sean Carroll) Carl Sagan once quipped, “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” But finding the ultimate recipe for apple pie means answering some big questions: What is matter really made of? How did it escape annihilation in the fearsome heat of the Big Bang? And will we ever be able to understand the very first moments of our universe? In How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch, Harry Cliff—a University of Cambridge particle physicist and researcher on the Large Hadron Collider—sets out in pursuit of answers. He ventures to the largest underground research facility in the world, deep beneath Italy's Gran Sasso mountains, where scientists gaze into the heart of the Sun using the most elusive of particles, the ghostly neutrino. He visits CERN in Switzerland to explore the "Antimatter Factory," where the stuff of science fiction is manufactured daily (and we're close to knowing whether it falls up). And he reveals what the latest data from the Large Hadron Collider may be telling us about the fundamental nature of matter. Along the way, Cliff illuminates the history of physics, chemistry, and astronomy that brought us to our present understanding—and misunderstandings—of the world, while offering readers a front-row seat to one of the most dramatic intellectual journeys human beings have ever embarked on. A transfixing deep dive into the origins of our world, How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch examines not just the makeup of our universe, but the awe-inspiring, improbable fact that it exists at all.
Author |
: Michio Kaku |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2008-03-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780385525442 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0385525443 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Physics of the Impossible by : Michio Kaku
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Inspired by the fantastic worlds of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Back to the Future, the renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of The God Equation takes an informed, serious, and often surprising look at what our current understanding of the universe's physical laws may permit in the near and distant future. Teleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar space ships—the stuff of science fiction or potentially attainable future technologies? Entertaining, informative, and imaginative, Physics of the Impossible probes the very limits of human ingenuity and scientific possibility.
Author |
: Lee Smolin |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0618551050 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780618551057 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Trouble with Physics by : Lee Smolin
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Author |
: Leonard Shlain |
Publisher |
: William Morrow Paperbacks |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2007-02-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0061227978 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780061227974 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Art & Physics by : Leonard Shlain
Art interprets the visible world. Physics charts its unseen workings. The two realms seem completely opposed. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no words––with physicists using the language of mathematics and artists using visual images. In Art & Physics, Leonard Shlain tracks their breakthroughs side by side throughout history to reveal an astonishing correlation of visions. From the classical Greek sculptors to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, and from Aristotle to Einstein, artists have foreshadowed the discoveries of scientists, such as when Monet and Cezanne intuited the coming upheaval in physics that Einstein would initiate. In this lively and colorful narrative, Leonard Shlain explores how artistic breakthroughs could have prefigured the visionary insights of physicists on so many occasions throughout history. Provicative and original, Art & Physics is a seamless integration of the romance of art and the drama of science––and an exhilarating history of ideas.