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The Many Voices of Modern Physics - Written Communication Practices of Key Discoveries (Hardcover)
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The Many Voices of Modern Physics - Written Communication Practices of Key Discoveries (Hardcover)
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The Many Voices of Modern Physics follows a revolution that began
in 1905 when Albert Einstein published papers on special relativity
and quantum theory. Unlike Newtonian physics, this new physics
often departs wildly from common sense, a radical divorce that
presents a unique communicative challenge to physicists when
writing for other physicists or for the general public, and to
journalists and popular science writers as well. In their two long
careers, Joseph Harmon and the late Alan Gross have explored how
scientists communicate with each other and with the general public.
Here, they focus not on the history of modern physics but on its
communication. In their survey of physics communications and
related persuasive practices, they move from peak to peak of
scientific achievement, recalling how physicists use the
communicative tools available - in particular, thought experiments,
analogies, visuals, and equations - to convince others that what
they say is not only true but significant, that it must be
incorporated into the body of scientific and general knowledge.
Each chapter includes a chorus of voices, from the many celebrated
physicists who devoted considerable time and ingenuity to
communicating their discoveries, to the science journalists who
made those discoveries accessible to the public, and even to
philosophers, sociologists, historians, an opera composer, and a
patent lawyer. With their final collaboration, Harmon and Gross
offer a tribute to the communicative practices of the physicists
who convinced their peers and the general public that the universe
is a far more bizarre and interesting place than their
nineteenth-century predecessors imagined.
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