LEADER 02456nam 2200481 450 001 9910828793303321 005 20230814224630.0 010 $a1-5036-0737-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503607378 035 $a(CKB)4100000006995665 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5527519 035 $a(DE-B1597)563604 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503607378 035 $a(OCoLC)1198931228 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006995665 100 $a20181017d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWhat is real? /$fGiorgio Agamben 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (89 pages) 225 0 $aMeridian: Crossing Aesthetics 311 $a1-5036-0620-1 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tWhat Is Real? -- $tThe Value of Statistical Laws in Physics and Social Sciences -- $tNotes 330 $aEighty 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? 606 $aNuclear physicists$zUnited States 606 $aMissing persons$zItaly 615 0$aNuclear physicists 615 0$aMissing persons 676 $a530.0922 700 $aAgamben$b Giorgio$035813 701 $aChiesa$b Lorenzo$0777004 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828793303321 996 $aWhat is real$94098658 997 $aUNINA