group query

[Andrew Dinn]

dpknauss at unity.ncsu.edu writes:

> Has anyone read Katherine N. Hayles' THE COSMIC WEB: Scientific Field 
> Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century? This is a pretty 
> good book which explains field theory (as opposed to viewing the universe 
> as a structure in terms of particles) and how this sort of 
> holistic/interconnectedness kind of thinking has revolutionized physics.  
> The main thrust of the book however is its use of the field concept to 
> explore Pirsig, Lawrence, Borges, Nabokov and Pynchon (GR gets the big 
> fat ending chapter).

> I also found the Mind's I (a classic by Hostadter and Dennet) a good 
> source of material on the widely ranging implications of modern physics 
> in other fields...

I think you should read some Dirac - really get your head around that
`field theory'. You'll need to start with Math 101, second floor,
first door on the left.

> ... its pretty ironic that discoveries in physics 
> have affected pop culture and literature before the other sciences have 
> decided to get with it since they seem the logical first...

Yeah, those chemists, materials scientists, electrical engineers,
biochemists, etc. just don't know how much they are missing.


Andrew Dinn
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