20059. Quantum Theories: Contemporary American Fiction, Modern Physics and the Universe
Quantum Theory is the cutting-edge meta-narrative of our times. The challenges physicists face in attempting to explain it to the non-physicist, and often to themselves, involve the use of language, counter-intuitive notions about cause-and-effect logic, the positing of images and metaphors to describe the quantum field--are there electrons, particles, waves, fields, antimatter, quarks, a "pulsating flux," a holographic universe (each of these has been used to describe each of the others?--and the idea of statistics and probability replacing "absolute" objects.
Connections:
Eng 346 Contemporary American Fiction: Quirks, Quarks, and Quests - or - Sex, Lies, and Quantum Leaps
and Phys 225 Modern Physics
or Ast 130 The Universe