“Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.” YearsLongFieldsFemaleMalesConventionsMathematicianPhysicistAstronomers Author:Margaret Wertheim
“Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our mathematical descriptions of our world. But what is critical to note here is that, however ambiguous our images, the universe itself remains whole and is manifestly not fracturing into schizophrenic shards. It is this tantalizing wholeness and the thing itself that drives physicists onward like an eternally beckoning light that seems so teasingly near. It is always out of reach.” WorldShouldWholeLightSeemsUniverseRemainsNotesWaveCriticalCoreMathematicalFeaturesDescriptionOur WorldWholenessPhysicistParticlesDualityAmbiguousSchizophrenicBeckoningTantalizing Author:Margaret Wertheim
“I have an abiding interest in how ordinary people produce knowledge, and what it means for individuals to know the world. I thought I'd be a theoretical physicist because I love physicists' views of the world - I find general relativity and quantum theory thrilling - but I have always felt uneasy with the idea of an Ultimate Truth. One of the functions of science is to help us instrumentally; it helps us to build things like microchips and GPS satellites. But another function of science in the modern world is to help us feel "at home in the universe".” PeopleWorldMeanHelpingHomeUniverseIndividualInterestModernUltimatePhysicistOrdinary PeopleTheoreticalUneasyQuantum Theory Author:Margaret Wertheim
