arebyte x A Sci-Fi Curriculum Reading Group

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Intros

Rebecca to introduce FUTURES PAST
Yuli to introduce A Sci-Fi Curriculum
How do we regard or use Speculation

<aside> ❓ Why are you here? Please share so we can attend to your concerns while or as we speak.

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Format intro
- Briefly, what are the ideas Barad mentions and how we are going to use them; Looking “through” ideas instead of “at”
Please interrupt us and share your thoughts throughout the talk

Troubling Time/s

Introducing different times by looking at doomsday clocks, peace clocks, atomic clocks, and the Hiroshima clocks that will forever be set to 8:15
The bomb continuing to live in survivors today; the past existing in the present
Introducing QFT, roughly explain wave and scatter patterns
- Depending on how you measure a particle, it will create either scatter or diffraction patterns: The nature of nature depends on how you measure it.

Bohr on the intra-action of ‘object’ and ‘tool’ (apparatus)

The world is made up of phenomena, not independently existing things. Measurements (and all intra-actions) contribute to the ongoing materialisation of the world. Complementarity is not merely showing the limits to our knowledge, but has to do with what comes to matter, what exists.

There is no separability between the object and the apparatus. … currently we would say that they are entangled in one another.

Explain how waves overlap, exist in multiple places at once, affect each other, two waves can move in one space. Creating Diffraction
A particle is not in one determined place and time, but in a range of probable places and times.
We don’t know exactly where it is, but we also don’t not know where it is. Indeterminate knowledge.
Potency of the void: this inability to determine exactly where things are makes empty space very potent; it might be empty, but it also might erupt into being at any given time.