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100 1 _aBarad, Karen Michelle.
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245 1 0 _aMeeting the universe halfway :
_bquantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning /
_cKaren Barad.
260 _aDurham :
_bDuke University Press ,
_c2006 .
300 _axiii, 524 pages
_c25 cm.
440 _aMeeting the universe halfway
_923806
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _apt. 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.
650 0 _aPhysics
_xPhilosophy.
_923807
650 0 _aQuantum theory
_xPhilosophy.
_922969
650 0 _aHeisenberg uncertainty principle
_xPhilosophy.
_923808
650 0 _aRealism
_xPhilosophy.
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650 0 _aRelativity (Physics)
_xPhilosophy.
_923810
650 0 _aMatter
_xPhilosophy.
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852 8 _hJFE 07-5614.
852 8 _hJFE 07-5614.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
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