Physics in Fiction | Episode 37

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Each week on The Matterhorn podcast, I discuss a way to layer fictions and discover the nuances of truth, using my novel as a catalyst but looking at other works of fiction as well as theory and interdisciplinary ideas. Each week, I also spend a little time on places & spaces, as part of a continued discourse on these ideas.

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Today’s episode links to “Part I: Sheung Wan i” in A Hong Kong Story.

Table of Contents

A full AI-created transcript can be accessed on the web version.

Keywords:

• Physics for the masses

• Quarks (& quarkizens)

• Black holes (& mise-en-abyme)

• Parallel universes  

• Time

• Place & Space focus - cafes

Texts:

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• Books about physics: https://www.livescience.com/best-physics-books

  https://fivebooks.com/category/mathematics-and-science/physics/

• The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene

• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

• Crime novelists and physicists

• My work on quarkizens

• U Chicago on Black Holes

• NASA on Black Holes for kids

• Andre Gide

• Mise-en-Abyme in Wayne Wong’s NY and HK films

• Borges Fictions

• Calvino and Borges - parallel universes

• Borges Paradox

• Fiction on parallel universes

• Haruki Murakami:

  • IQ84

  • Kafka on the Shore

  • Killing Commendatore

  • Hard-boiled Wonderland and the end of the World

• Haruki Murakami on Parallel Realities (The New Yorker)

• 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster

• Orlando by Virginia Woolf

• A Wrinkle in Time by l’Engle

• Heidegger’s Being and Time / Sein und Zeit

• Space.com – The Illusion of Time: What’s Real?

  By Robert Lawrence Kuhn

• Does Time Really Exist?

• Coffee houses in Ottoman Empire (History.com)

• Parisian Cafes

• How coffee fueled revolutions

• Baudelaire, Benjamin and the Birth of the Flâneur

  By Bobby Seal, Psychogeographic Review

• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

• Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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