The two cultures observation has divided the sciences from the hu- manities for at least the past 75 years; the advances of knowledge into every more specialised silos have been a great success. At the same time, something is lost by this ever more radical compartmentalisation of the disciplines. In this spirit, this manuscript investigations some of the major advances of the past century in science taking concepts and different frames of thinking from them and musing on how this new thinking might lead to useful insights and investigations by taking different perspectives and centralities in approaching research problems in the humanities. The scientific concepts considered here are: relativity; observation and wave-particle duality; conservation laws and symmetry; quantum entangle- ment; and quantum tunnelling. It also holds that there are possibilities for origi- nal new thinking in the opposite direction: taking methodologies and concepts from the humanities to look at scientific problems; in particular complex ones.
What Can Quantum Physics Offer the Humanities?
R. Hall-Wilton
2025-01-01
Abstract
The two cultures observation has divided the sciences from the hu- manities for at least the past 75 years; the advances of knowledge into every more specialised silos have been a great success. At the same time, something is lost by this ever more radical compartmentalisation of the disciplines. In this spirit, this manuscript investigations some of the major advances of the past century in science taking concepts and different frames of thinking from them and musing on how this new thinking might lead to useful insights and investigations by taking different perspectives and centralities in approaching research problems in the humanities. The scientific concepts considered here are: relativity; observation and wave-particle duality; conservation laws and symmetry; quantum entangle- ment; and quantum tunnelling. It also holds that there are possibilities for origi- nal new thinking in the opposite direction: taking methodologies and concepts from the humanities to look at scientific problems; in particular complex ones.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
