Missing the point

[Daniel Harper]

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>        Pynchon failed to feel into the trap of entering the
>        cliche of talking about the theory of relativity and
>        Einstein. Yes, special and general relativity are
>        almost everywhere in the book (like the E=mc**2
>        formula described in page 565) but they do not
>        play the crucial role of change that a medium caliber
>        writer would make them play. Instead Pynchon
>        dives deep in the actual theory, picks out the
>        element that was transformed by the paradigm
>        change (light), something which is often missed
>        by many professional scientists, and uses this
>        as the central metaphor for the whole book.
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I'm not sure you could find many professional physicists who wouldn't agree
that one of the fundamental elements of the change in the way we view the
universe post-Einstein was in the way we view light. Particle-wave duality
and all that. Or were you trying to say something different?

--Daniel
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