What is role of industry in economic development
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PLG: It is absolutely not how I think of the problem not for Poincaré, not for Einstein. Almost all of my work
stems from a concern with the strange juxtaposition of the very abstract and the very concrete. This is not a
question that is by any means restricted to physics, but physics makes it abruptly clear how suddenly we pass
from symbols to materiality. In Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps, I want to get away from two widespread
ideas: first, a notion that science proceeds by a kind of Platonic ascension, an evaporative or sublimating
process that takes the material into the abstract. Material relations do not eject ideas or produce ideas like
ripples on the surface of deep-flowing currents. And here coordinated clocks did not cause Einstein to introduce
the synchronizing procedure. Telegraphic longitude mapping did not force Poincaré to the simultaneity
procedure. Conversely, physics does not advance by pure condensation it would be a terrible distortion to see
physics beginning in a realm of pure ideas, and then gradually acquiring the weight of materiality until they
stand in corporeal form as the objects of everyday life. So the reason that I find this moment of late-nineteenth
and early-twentieth-century contemplation of time so interesting is that it represents neither of these unilateral
directions (concrete- to-abstract or abstract-to-concrete). Instead there is an extraordinary oscillation back and
forth between abstraction and concreteness. I like this mix this high-pressure interaction of material
technologies, philosophy, and physics. Each was in play, in different ways, and "simultaneity" was at stake in
each domain: in Lorentz's mathematical "local time," in the technological exchange of time signals, in the
philosophical critique of absolute time. In their own ways, Poincaré and Einstein were reading philosophy,
working at technological projects, grappling with electrodynamics. Einstein certainly knew pieces of what
Poincaré had done (how much and exactly when is a longer story). Then came Poincaré's moment in December
1900 (and Einstein's in May 1905) when a statement about what simultaneity is suddenly participated in all
three arcs the crossing point.
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