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Can theoretical science be married with literary style to create
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Can theoretical science be married with literary style to create a work tearing at the very fabric of our understanding?
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>>8214410
no
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>>8214410
no
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It's called Finnegans Wake.
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>>8214410
You want shit like that in a book? Unless properly elucidated and adumberated, then no.
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>>8214410
No, because nobody has ever nor will ever cogently understand both science and literature enough to produce such a book

there are scifags who write shitty books and litfags who falsely believe they like and understand science, but that's about it
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dont post anymore until youre outta highschool and done smoking pot
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Yes it's called Gravity's Rainbow.
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>>8214410
i felt the breaking of the boundary of communication in some parts of ulysses, but i was high as shit when i read it...
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>>8214410
>the very fabric of our understanding?
What, like our brains? Brain-tearing literature?
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I don't think it works, as everything but math is just an analogy. Also, it's not necessary, as math is beautiful in itself.

In your pic we have
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_in_a_box#Energy_levels
You get there in 2 years undergrad physics.
Also,
>dS=dU/T
>tfw dW=0
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>>8214410
mysticism is the science of ontology.

as such, requires prior experience. education you could say
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>>8214410
>married
that's cute
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>mfw i've been developing a quantum theory of most tantumizing affairs
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Aristotle?
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>>8214410
Mallarmé?
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>>8214410
Black Holes and Time Warps and Godel, Escher, Bach do this: using stories and literary tropes to explore the boundaries of human understanding
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>litfags who falsely believe they like and understand science
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