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Winegarden (Paperback)
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Winegarden (Paperback)
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List price R267
Loot Price R241
Discovery Miles 2 410
You Save R26 (10%)
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Winegarden recounts episodes in the life of Jacob Winegarden, an
agnostic Jewish professor of theoretical physics whose speciality
is 'thought experimentation'. A burly, vague, distracted man, a fan
of popular films such as Toy Story and Fantastic Voyage, Jacob is
still forlornly infatuated with his enigmatic wife, Miriam. She
brings him back to reality: he is in a world of his own, she says,
but there are things that need doing in this one.Winegarden
operates at the elusive boundary between physics and metaphysics,
trying to understand what the world of quantum mechanics can tell
us about the soul, the existence of God, the meaning of love and
memory; about how those who are absent can also be present. He uses
pencil and paper, and classic aids to thought such as cats, zombies
or occasionally Golems, because these creatures occupy ambiguous
spaces between states of being and not-being and can thus
illuminate the nature of the universe. His apparently whimsical
thought experiments are revealed to have a deadly serious purpose.
Making connections between his life and his work is his way of
coping with the uncertainties of love, the trailing tendrils of his
Jewish heritage, and the trauma of a devastating loss. Winegarden
fears certainty: if the truth is bleak, it may be better not to
know, to be uncertain. And if it has to be known, then there will
be thought experiments that can imagine other universes where
things might be different.Moving backwards and forwards in time and
touching on different parts of Winegarden's life and thoughts, the
stories are designed to fit together as a novella. Together they
tell a larger personal story of grief and survival, the ambivalence
and persistence of love, and the meaning of being Jewish.
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