Strung together : the cultural currency of string theory as a scientific imaginary / Sean Miller
| データ種別 | 電子書籍 |
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| 出版者 | Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press |
| 出版年 | [2013] |
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| 書誌ID | OB00656624 |
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| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 一般注記 | Includes bibliographical references and index License restrictions may limit access Summary: "In Strung Together: The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific Imaginary, Sean Miller examines the cultural currency of string theory, both as part of scientific discourse and beyond it. He demonstrates that the imaginative component of string theory is both integral and indispensable to it as a scientific discourse. While mathematical arguments provide precise prompts for physical intervention in the world, the imaginary that supplements mathematical argument within string theory technical discourse allows theorists to imagine themselves interacting with the cosmos as an abstract space in such a way that strings and branes as phenomena become substantiated and legitimized. And it is precisely this sort of imaginary--which Miller calls a scientific imaginary--duly substantiated and acculturated, that survives the move from string theory technical discourse to popularizations and ultimately to popular and literary discourses. In effect, a string theory imaginary legitimizes the science itself and helps to facilitate a virtual domestication of a cosmos that was heretofore remote, alien, and incomprehensible"-- Provided by publisher |
| 著者標目 | *Miller, Sean 1969- |
| 件 名 | LCSH:Science -- Literary collections
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LCSH:String models LCSH:Science in popular culture LCSH:Science -- Language 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Physics -- Philosophy 全ての件名で検索 FREE:LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory FREE:SCIENCE / Physics FREE:SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects |
| 分 類 | LCC:PS509.S3 DC23:810.8/0356 |
| 巻冊次 | hardback : acid-free paper ; ISBN:9780472118663 RefWorks出力（各巻） e-book ; XISBN:9780472028962 RefWorks出力（各巻） |
| 資料種別 | 機械可読データファイル |
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