Description: What Is Real?, Paperback by Agamben, Giorgio; Chiesa, Lorenzo (TRN), ISBN 150360621X, ISBN-13 9781503606210, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most talented physicist of his generation vanished without leaving a trace? It has long been speculated that Majorana decided to abandon physics, disappearing because he had precociously realized that nuclear fission would inevitably lead to the atomic bomb. This book advances a different hypothesis. Through a careful analysis of Majoranas article "The Value of Statistical Laws in Physics and Social Sciences," which shows how in quantum physics reality is dissolved into probability, and in dialogue with Simone Weils considerations on the topic, Giorgio Agamben suggests that, by disappearing into thin air, Majorana turned his very person into an exemplary cipher of the status of the real in our probabilistic universe. In so doing, the physicist posed a question to science that is still awaiting an answer: What is Real?
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Book Title: What Is Real?
Number of Pages: 88 Pages
Publication Name: What Is Real?
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Physics / Quantum Theory, Epistemology, Physics / Nuclear
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2018
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Philosophy, Science
Item Length: 7 in
Author: Giorgio Agamben
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics Ser.
Item Width: 4.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
