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litsci-l-digest        Wednesday, April 9 2003        Volume 01 : Number
031



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     Fwd: Re: Kurt Vonnegut and the 4th dimension
     SLS Conference on Space and Time

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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:53:05 -0500
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: Fwd: Re: Kurt Vonnegut and the 4th dimension

From:     
Date:     3/26/2003 12:13AM
Subject:     Re: Kurt Vonnegut and the 4th dimension


In a message dated 3/22/03, Linda Henderson asks:

>

There sure are a whole lot of such novels.  Alas, I never made a list. 
=
Isn't
4D mentioned in "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater"?  I could also argue =
that
Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" and "The Waves" demonstrate 4th-dimensional
awareness.

Here's some nonfiction that might be worth considering:

1908, 21Sep, 80th Congress of Deutsche Naturforscher und =C4rtzte, =
Cologne. 
Minkowski (Einstein's old teacher) gives lecture "Raum und Zeit" on
4-dimensional spacetime world-line published posthumously by Teubner: =
"Raum
und Zeit," Physikalischen Zeitschrift, 10. Jahrgang.   Nr. 3; zip, =
German,
~4MB 
"From now on space by itself, and time by itself, are destined to sink
completely into shadows, and only a kind of union of both to retain an
independent existence."  (quoted in Hoffmann, Einstein, p89)

1908, Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, St. Petersburg, 1908. 
Written in Geneva, his first book, attacks Mach & Avenarius (1876), a =
4th
dimension, Otzovism. 

- -Bill
William R. Everdell, St. Ann's School, Brooklyn, NY
    "Toute notre dignit=E9 consiste donc en la pens=E9e.  C'est de l=E0
=
qu'il nous
faut relever et non de l'espace et de la dur=E9e, que nous ne saurions =
remplir.
Travaillons donc =E0 bien penser: voil=E0 le principe de la morale."  =
(Pascal,
Pens=E9es, 1670, #200)
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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 09:27:50 -0700
From: "McConnell, Craig" 
Subject: SLS Conference on Space and Time


Greetings,

I would like to present a paper at the Austin conference on the
popularization of space and time.  I am thinking in particular of the
treatment of relativistic space-time in the popular works of Einstein,
Gamow, Sagan, and Hawking, though I could restrict my focus if need be.


I would like to hear from people who are also interested in space and
time in a popular context -- perhaps we can arrange a panel.  My
approach is primarily historical.  I would be very interested to join
forces with people studying visual representations or people with a more
literary perspective.  Alternately, if some of you have already started
organizing a panel and have room for one more, I'd be happy to join in.


- --Craig


Craig McConnell, Ph.D.
Department of Liberal Studies
California State University, Fullerton
cmcconnell@fullerton.edu
http://faculty.fullerton.edu/cmcconnell




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