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What Is Real? (Hardcover)
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What Is Real? (Hardcover)
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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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 Majorana decided to abandon
physics, disappearing because he had precociously realized that
nuclear fission would inevitably lead to the atomic bomb. This book
advances a different hypothesis. Through a careful analysis of
Majorana's article "The Value of Statistical Laws in Physics and
Social Sciences," which shows how in quantum physics reality is
dissolved into probability, and in dialogue with Simone Weil's
considerations on the topic, Giorgio Agamben suggests that, by
disappearing into thin air, Majorana turned his very person into an
exemplary cipher of the status of the real in our probabilistic
universe. In so doing, the physicist posed a question to science
that is still awaiting an answer: What is Real?
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