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Meeting the universe halfway : quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning / Karen Barad.

By: Barad, Karen MichelleMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007. Description: xiii, 524 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 0822339013 (acid-free paper); 9780822339175; 082233917X (pbk. : acid-free paper); 9780822339014 (acid-free paper); 9780822339175 (pbk. : acid-free paper)Subject(s): Heisenberg uncertainty principle -- Philosophy | Matter -- Philosophy | Physics -- Philosophy | Quantum theory -- Philosophy | Realism -- Philosophy | Relativity (Physics) -- PhilosophyLOC classification: QC6 | .B328 2007
Contents:
pt. 1. Entangled beginnings. Introduction : the science and ethics of mattering ; Meeting the universe halfway ; Diffractions : differences, contingencies, and entanglements that matter -- pt. 2. Intra-actions matter. Niels Bohr's philosophy-physics : quantum physics and the nature of knowledge and reality ; Agential realism : how material-discursive practices matter -- pt. 3. Entanglements and re(con)figurations. Getting real : technoscientific practices and the materialization of reality ; Spacetime re(con)figurings : naturalcultural forces and changing topologies of power ; Quantum entanglements : experimental metaphysics and the nature of nature ; The ontology of knowing, the intra-activity of becoming, and the ethics of mattering -- Appendix A. Cascade experiment / by Alice Fulton -- Appendix B. The uncertainty principle is not the basis of Bohr's complementarity -- Appendix C. Controversy concerning the relationship between Bohr's principle of complementarity and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-489) and index.

pt. 1. Entangled beginnings. Introduction : the science and ethics of mattering ; Meeting the universe halfway ; Diffractions : differences, contingencies, and entanglements that matter -- pt. 2. Intra-actions matter. Niels Bohr's philosophy-physics : quantum physics and the nature of knowledge and reality ; Agential realism : how material-discursive practices matter -- pt. 3. Entanglements and re(con)figurations. Getting real : technoscientific practices and the materialization of reality ; Spacetime re(con)figurings : naturalcultural forces and changing topologies of power ; Quantum entanglements : experimental metaphysics and the nature of nature ; The ontology of knowing, the intra-activity of becoming, and the ethics of mattering -- Appendix A. Cascade experiment / by Alice Fulton -- Appendix B. The uncertainty principle is not the basis of Bohr's complementarity -- Appendix C. Controversy concerning the relationship between Bohr's principle of complementarity and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

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