TY - BOOK AU - Barad,Karen Michelle TI - Meeting the universe halfway: quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning SN - 0822339013 (acidfree paper) AV - RB37 .C69 2007 U1 - 530.1201 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Durham PB - Duke University Press KW - Physics KW - Philosophy KW - Quantum theory KW - Heisenberg uncertainty principle KW - Realism KW - Relativity (Physics) KW - Matter N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-489) and index; pt. 1. Entangled beginnings. Introduction : the science and ethics of mattering ; Meeting the universe halfway ; Diffractions : differences, contingencies, and entanglements that matter -- pt. 2. Intra-actions matter. Niels Bohr's philosophy-physics : quantum physics and the nature of knowledge and reality ; Agential realism : how material-discursive practices matter -- pt. 3. Entanglements and re(con)figurations. Getting real : technoscientific practices and the materialization of reality ; Spacetime re(con)figurings : naturalcultural forces and changing topologies of power ; Quantum entanglements : experimental metaphysics and the nature of nature ; The ontology of knowing, the intra-activity of becoming, and the ethics of mattering -- Appendix A. Cascade experiment / by Alice Fulton -- Appendix B. The uncertainty principle is not the basis of Bohr's complementarity -- Appendix C. Controversy concerning the relationship between Bohr's principle of complementarity and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006027826.html ER -