Hello Ran,
Heeltemal korrek ek moes Brian Cox en Jeff Forshaw se The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen nie in die lys van persone wat die onderwerp probeer hanteer met metafore ingesluit het nie. My fout ek was lui met my frase en moes dit kwalifiseer het. Verskoning daarvoor. Die Economist se bespreking het juis melding gemaak daarvan dat Cox en Forshaw se boek juis die wiskunde onderliggend tot die onderwerp uitbring.
Messrs Cox and Forshaw say they have included the maths “mainly because it allows us to really explain why things are the way they are. Without it, we should have to resort to the physicist-guru mentality whereby we pluck profundities out of thin air, and neither author would be comfortable with guru status.
That stance might comfort the authors, but to many readers they will nonetheless seem to pluck equations out of thin air. Yet their decision to include some of the hard stuff leaves open the possibility that some readers might actually engage in the slog that leads to higher pleasures. For non-sloggers alternative routes are offered: Messrs Cox and Forshaw use clockfaces to illustrate how particles interact with one another, a drawing of how guitar strings twang and a photograph of a vibrating drum. A diagram, rather than an equation, is used to explain one promising theory of how matter acquires mass, a question that experiments on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, will hopefully soon answer."
Ek wil kyk of ek oor die vakansie by Cox & Forshaw se boek kan uitkom, maar die wiskunde is bo my vuurmaakplek.
Baie dankie
Wouter