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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