{"product_id":"quantum-language-and-the-migration-of-scientific-concepts-9780262055772","title":"Quantum Language and the Migration of Scientific Concepts","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jennifer Burwell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow highly abstract quantum concepts were represented in language, and how these concepts were later taken up by philosophers, literary critics, and new-age gurus.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe principles of quantum physics--and the strange phenomena they describe--are represented most precisely in highly abstract algebraic equations. Why, then, did these mathematically driven concepts compel founders of the field, particularly Erwin Schr�dinger, 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 phenomena--in the context of the founders' debates over how to describe them--reveal about the relationship between everyday experience, perception, and language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on linguistic, literary, and philosophical traditions, Burwell illuminates representational and linguistic problems posed by quantum concepts--the 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.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46415826485399,"sku":"9780262055772","price":4275.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780262055772.webp?v=1769061093","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/quantum-language-and-the-migration-of-scientific-concepts-9780262055772","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}