Quantum Language and the Migration of Scientific Concepts (Paperback)

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Editorial: MIT Press Ltd, 2025

0262055775 / 9780262055772

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Paperback. How highly abstract quantum concepts were represented in language, and how these concepts were later taken up by philosophers, literary critics, and new-age gurus.The principles of quantum physicsand the strange phenomena they describeare represented most precisely in highly abstract algebraic equations. Why, then, did these mathematically driven concepts compel founders of the field, particularly Erwin Schroedinger, Niels Bohr, and Werner Heisenberg, to spend so much time reflecting on ontological, epistemological, and linguistic concerns? What is it about quantum concepts that appeals to latter-day Eastern mystics, poststructuralist critics, and get-rich-quick schemers? How did their interpretations and misinterpretations of quantum phenomena reveal their own priorities? In this book, Jennifer Burwell examines these questions and considers what quantum phenomenain the context of the founders' debates over how to describe themreveal about the relationship between everyday experience, perception, and language.Drawing on linguistic, literary, and philosophical traditions, Burwell illuminates representational and linguistic problems posed by quantum conceptsthe fact, for example, that quantum phenomena exist only as probabilities or tendencies toward being and cannot be said to exist in a particular time and place. She traces the emergence of quantum theory as an analytic tool in literary criticism, in particular the use of wave/particle duality in interpretations of gender differences in the novels of Virginia Woolf and critics' connection of Bohr's Principle of Complementarity to poetic form; she examines the quantum mysticism of Fritjof Capra and Gary Zukav; and she concludes by analyzing nuclear discourse in the context of quantum concepts, arguing that it, too, adopts a language of the unthinkable and the indescribable. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Título
Quantum Language and the Migration of Scientific Concepts (Paperback)
Autor
Jennifer Burwell
Editorial
MIT Press Ltd
Año de publicación
2025
Estado
new
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0262055775
ISBN 13
9780262055772

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