Quantum Mechy Mouse (was: Sokal again. Drat!)

Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt hag at iafrica.com
Wed Jul 24 13:26:43 CDT 1996


Paul Mackin writes:

> Wonder how Pynchon will deal with quantum mechanics, if and
> when he does (and if he has not done already).

Wasn't that one of the keys to V? (In the SHROUD episode the 
shift to a 'post-mechanist universe' is characterized - and debunked? - thus:

"Now in the twentieth century, with nuclear and subatomic physics 
a going thing, man had become something which absorbs X-rays, 
gamma rays and neutrons" (284)

hg
hag at iafrica.com





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