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(4) | Ingen | "Meet Peter Leroy, of Babbington, Long Island, "Clam Capital of America." He's a middle-aged dreamer who sits at a computer in a room in an old hotel, revising his childhood. In Where Do You Stop? Peter writes about his eleven-year-old self, just entering adolescence and just beginning to ponder life's big questions." "When young Peter begins junior high school, he meets for the first time the black kids who come from a part of Babbington where there are no sidewalks, and he must evaluate his father's opinion that having no sidewalks is the way black people like it. Peter has to deal with his consuming passion for Ariane, the sultry older sister of his best friend, and he must figure out what to make of his beautiful new science teacher, Miss Rheingold, who is entranced by quantum theorist Werner Heisenberg and intoxicated by uncertainty. Miss Rheingold's style is discontinuity. After showing her charges an educational film featuring a zippy little character called Quanto the Minimum, she proposes that Peter and his group answer - in any way they see fit and with no deadline - the question "Where do you stop?"" "It's an interesting question: Where do things stop? At a subatomic level, where does your body stop and the air around it begin? At what point does society divide us into white and black? How late can you turn in a science project that has no due date? At what point does lemonade added to beer make the perfect shandy? And, perhaps most puzzling of all: When a car depreciates, where exactly does the lost value, formerly a part of the car, go? These are life's big questions. The answers - hilarious, profound, totally original - are in Eric Kraft's Where Do You Stop?, which is Peter's science report, finished at last after more than thirty years." "Completing Miss Rheingold's assignment takes Peter into an investigation of the edges of things, of frames and borders, continuity and discontinuity, and the tribal isolation of people who think of themselves in terms of their membership in a group. Where Do You Stop? is a book about an endearing little boy, depreciation, ontology, epistemology, Zwischenraum, Miss Rheingold's legs, fantastic contraptions, and much, much more - and it's the first book that makes quantum physics wacky fun."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved… (mere) |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. Here am I, lying under a hayrick. The tiny narrow spot I'm taking up is so infinitesimally small by comparison with the rest of space, where I am not and which has nothing to do with me, and the portion of time which I may succeed in living through is so insignificant when confronted with eternity, wherein I was not and shall not be. Yet within this atom, this mathematical point, the blood is circulating, the brain is working, something or other yearns. . . .
— Bazarov, in Ivan S. Turgenev's Fathers and Sons  The interaction between thought and language always fascinated Bohr. He often spoke of the fact that any attempt to express a thought involves some change, some irrevocable interference with the essential idea, and this interference becomes all the stronger as one tries to express oneself more clearly. Here again there is a complementarity, as he frequently pointed out, between clarity and truth—between Klarheit und Wahrheit, as he liked to say. This is why Bohr was not a very clear lecturer. He was intensely interested in what he had to say, but he was too much aware of the intricate web of ideas, of all possible cross-connections; this awareness made his talks fascinating but hard to follow.
— Victor F. Weisskopf, "Niels Bohr, the Quantum, and the World" (from Niels Bohr: A Centenary Volume) Electrons exist both on their own, as free particles, and as constituents of atoms, and they can change from one role to the other and back. An electron forming part of a carbon atom in the skin of your wrist could be knocked out of position by a passing cosmic ray and become part of the tiny electric current in your digital wristwatch, and then in turn become part of an oxygen atom in the air you breathe as you raise your arm to look at the time.
— Frank Close, Michael Martin, and Christine Sutton, The Particle Explosion In the [scanning tunneling microscope] the "aperture" is a tiny tungsten probe, its tip ground so fine that it may consist of only a single atom.. . . Piezoelectric controls maneuver the tip to within a nanometer or two of the surface of a conducting specimen—so close that the electron clouds of the atom at the probe tip and of the nearest atom of the specimen overlap.
— H. Kumar Wickramasinghe, "Scanned-Probe Microscopes" (Scientific American, October 1989) Simmel, on the basis of a partial reading of Nietzsche, recognizes this in his Metaphysics of Death: "The secret of form lies in the fact that it is a boundary; it is the thing itself and at the same time the cessation of the thing, the circumscribed territory in which the Being and the No-longer-being of the thing are one and the same." If form is a boundary, there then arises the problem of the plurality of boundaries—and the calling them into question.
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The Sphere and the Labyrinth:
Avant Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s The right thing and the time it takes are connected by a mysterious force, just like a piece of sculpture and the space it fills.
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Ingen ▾Bogbeskrivelser "Meet Peter Leroy, of Babbington, Long Island, "Clam Capital of America." He's a middle-aged dreamer who sits at a computer in a room in an old hotel, revising his childhood. In Where Do You Stop? Peter writes about his eleven-year-old self, just entering adolescence and just beginning to ponder life's big questions." "When young Peter begins junior high school, he meets for the first time the black kids who come from a part of Babbington where there are no sidewalks, and he must evaluate his father's opinion that having no sidewalks is the way black people like it. Peter has to deal with his consuming passion for Ariane, the sultry older sister of his best friend, and he must figure out what to make of his beautiful new science teacher, Miss Rheingold, who is entranced by quantum theorist Werner Heisenberg and intoxicated by uncertainty. Miss Rheingold's style is discontinuity. After showing her charges an educational film featuring a zippy little character called Quanto the Minimum, she proposes that Peter and his group answer - in any way they see fit and with no deadline - the question "Where do you stop?"" "It's an interesting question: Where do things stop? At a subatomic level, where does your body stop and the air around it begin? At what point does society divide us into white and black? How late can you turn in a science project that has no due date? At what point does lemonade added to beer make the perfect shandy? And, perhaps most puzzling of all: When a car depreciates, where exactly does the lost value, formerly a part of the car, go? These are life's big questions. The answers - hilarious, profound, totally original - are in Eric Kraft's Where Do You Stop?, which is Peter's science report, finished at last after more than thirty years." "Completing Miss Rheingold's assignment takes Peter into an investigation of the edges of things, of frames and borders, continuity and discontinuity, and the tribal isolation of people who think of themselves in terms of their membership in a group. Where Do You Stop? is a book about an endearing little boy, depreciation, ontology, epistemology, Zwischenraum, Miss Rheingold's legs, fantastic contraptions, and much, much more - and it's the first book that makes quantum physics wacky fun."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved ▾Biblioteksbeskrivelser af bogens indhold No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThingmedlemmers beskrivelse af bogens indhold |
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