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What Is Real?
โ Scribed by Giorgio Agamben; Lorenzo Chiesa
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 89
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
In this philosophical detective story, Giorgio Agamben reads the mysterious 1938 disappearance of atomic physicist Ettore Majorana as an intentional and decisive objection to how quantum physics had reduced the real to probability.
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Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most talented physicist of his generation vanished without leaving a trace? It has long been speculated that Majo
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