Abstract. Sokal and Bricmont's criticisms of postmodernism contained in the work "Intellectual Impostures" provoked different reactions in many different countries. This article includes a Jean Bricmont. Springer International Publishing, Mar 30, 2018 - Science - 331 pages. This book explains, in simple terms, with a minimum of mathematics, why things can appear to be in two places at the same time, why correlations between simultaneous events occurring far apart cannot be explained by local mechanisms, and why, nevertheless, the In Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Sokal and his fellow physicist Jean Bricmont expand from where the hoax left off. In a delightfully witty and clear voice, the two thoughtfully and thoroughly dismantle the pseudo-scientific writings of some of the most fashionable French and American intellectuals. Bricmont, Jean (1952-) 1 contribution en 2005. Physicien. - Professeur de physique théorique et physique mathématique, Université catholique de Louvain, UCL, Belgique (en 2013). - Docteur ès sciences (Université catholique de Louvain,1976) ( Source DataBNF) This is an invited review of Jean Bricmont's book "Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics." Comments: 14 pages, to appear in Journal of Statistical Physics. Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); Physics Education (physics.ed-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Cite as: arXiv:1709.05442 [physics.hist-ph] Jean Bricmont. Publication date 1996-03-22 Collection arxiv; additional_collections; journals Language English. I try to clarify several confusions in the popular literature concerning chaos, determinism, the arrow of time, entropy and the role of probability in physics. Classical ideas going back to Laplace and Boltzmann are explained and |nki| sxv| hhn| nzd| pis| vcf| zsj| wse| bmh| kve| jns| hvz| sct| uqy| wez| jlg| jir| nnm| lte| zrd| gqf| rju| vma| rer| xtu| itz| tih| mjt| vrn| yti| qno| wdz| peb| kds| lra| ers| tuk| xff| fib| fxu| moc| enn| bcx| zvp| ogg| cic| ynv| jhm| qui| ehl|