scholarly journals Clara Janés. La poética cuántica o la física de la poesía

Author(s):  
Candelas Gala

Este texto plantea la situación de las dos culturas elaborada por Charles Percy Snow en su conferencia de 1959 y elabora sobre la noción de la transdisciplinariedad como acercamiento metodológico a la poesía de Clara Janés, haciendo hincapié en la física como su referente analógico más frecuente. Los poemarios de Janés giran en torno a dos alternativas, la física clásica y sus certezas, causalidad y determinismo, por un lado, y la incertidumbre, indeterminismo e irreversibilidad de la física cuántica, por otro, alternativas articuladas en el texto en torno a las figuras de Erwin Schrödinger con el determinismo de su función de onda y Niels Bohr, arquitecto de la cuántica y de su principio de la complementariedad. El recurso poético de esta autora es mantenerse en el estado flotante de la paradoja cuántica para sostener el potencial creativo y evitar el colapso que, como sucede con la observación en la física cuántica, causaría la preferencia por una de las opciones.

Author(s):  
Henk W. de Regt

This chapter investigates the relation between visualizability and intelligibility, by means of an in-depth study of the transition from classical physics to quantum physics in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this development, the issue of visualizability played a central role. After a brief discussion of the visualizability of classical physics, it examines the gradual loss of visualizability in quantum theory, focusing on the work of quantum physicists Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, and Erwin Schrödinger. The chapter presents a detailed analysis of the role of visualizability (Anschaulichkeit) in the competition between Schrödinger’s wave mechanics and Heisenberg’s matrix mechanics, and in the discovery of electron spin. The contextual theory of understanding asserts that visualizability is one out of many possible tools for understanding, albeit one that has proved to be very effective in science. This conclusion is supported by an analysis of the role of visualization in postwar quantum physics, especially via Feynman diagrams.


2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-283
Author(s):  
Brady Harrison

Abstract The article explores the so-called quantum measurement problem, or the collapse of a wave function in the act of observation, as a reading and interpretive strategy. In particular, the article argues that the Maltese falcon, if it exists at all, does not exist in Dashiell Hammett's noir version of San Francisco until Sam Spade attempts to find it in a particular place. Further, reading from a quantum perspective suggests that Casper Gutman does not really want to find the jewel-encrusted statuette, or one would have appeared more often. Drawing on the work of Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, Henry P. Stapp, and other quantum physicists, the article explores the role that consciousness and acts of observation play in the calling into being of material reality as it is imagined in narrative fiction.


1963 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 117-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis De Broglie
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1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
P E Rubinin
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