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Image and Logic (Paperback, New)
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Image and Logic (Paperback, New)
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"I want to get at the blown glass of the early cloud chambers and
the oozing noodles of wet nuclear emulsion; to the resounding crack
of a high-voltage spark arcing across a high-tension chamber and
leaving the lab stinking of ozone; to the silent, darkened room,
with row after row of scanners sliding trackballs across projected
bubble-chamber images. Pictures and pulses--I want to know where
they came from, how pictures and counts got to be the bottom-line
data of physics." (from the preface)
"Image and Logic" is the most detailed engagement to date with the
impact of modern technology on what it means to "do" physics and to
be a physicist. At the beginning of this century, physics was
usually done by a lone researcher who put together experimental
apparatus on a benchtop. Now experiments frequently are larger than
a city block, and experimental physicists live very different
lives: programming computers, working with industry, coordinating
vast teams of scientists and engineers, and playing politics.
Peter L. Galison probes the material culture of experimental
microphysics to reveal how the ever-increasing scale and complexity
of apparatus have distanced physicists from the very science that
drew them into experimenting, and have fragmented microphysics into
different technical traditions much as apparatus have fragmented
atoms to get at the fundamental building blocks of matter. At the
same time, the necessity for teamwork in operating
multimillion-dollar machines has created dynamic "trading zones,"
where instrument makers, theorists, and experimentalists meet,
share knowledge, and coordinate the extraordinarily diverse pieces
of the culture of modern microphysics: work, machines, evidence,
and argument.
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