Quantum language and the migration of scientific concepts / Jennifer Burwell.

9780262345118 (electronic bk.)
0262345110 (electronic bk.)
9780262037556
0262037556

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]

©2018

English

1 online resource (328 pages)

QC174.13 .B874 2018eb

530.1201/4

"This book looks at the use of language in science and in the circulation of scienctific concepts in society at large. More precisely, the book looks at the difficulties physicists faced regarding the use of language while creating quantum mechanics, with the use of quantum concepts in literary criticism and in literature, and with the use of these concepts by the New Age and Post New Age inclined. The principles of quantum physics--and the strange phenomena they describe--originate in and are expressed most precisely with highly abstract algebraic equations. The main challenge posed by quantum phenomena does not lie, however, in its mathematics; it lies instead in how these phenomena strain the limits of comprehension. This book explores the elusive nature of the quantum domain, its problematic relationship to representation in language, and its cultural migration over time"-- Provided by publisher.

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