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Bipolaronic Superconductivity, High Tc, Materials An et al. · 1998

We show that objections raised by Chakraverty et al (Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 433 (1998)) to the bipolaron model of superconducting cuprates are the result of an incorrect approximation for the bipolaron energy spectrum and misuse of the bipolaron theory. The consideration, which takes into account the multiband energy structure of bipolarons and the unscreened electronphonon interaction clearly indicates that cuprates are in the Bose-Einstein condensation regime with mobile charged bosons. PACS numbers:74.20.-z,74.65.+n,74.60.Mj Typeset using REVTEX 1 Recently Chakraverty et al [1] raised objections to the bipolaron model of superconducting cuprates [2]. They claimed that: a) Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) is not realised for any preformed pairs because this scenario cannot account for the observed value of Tc, (b) bipolarons are ruled out as superconducting pairs because they are too heavy, (c) the coherence length in cuprates is such that pairs are strongly overlapped, and (d) the bipolaron

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Bradford Vivian · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2017

This chapter argues that the very prospect of witnessing in late modern public culture is defined by countervailing imperatives: the publicly lauded ideal that bearing witness to the past allows forgiveness, as compared to philosophical, theological, or literary arguments that it is impossible to effectively bear witness to atrocious violence or indescribable tragedy. The combined wisdom of frequently invoked postwar commonplaces holds that witnessing is, in a rhetorical sense, both imperative and impossible. This aporia warrants deeper consideration of the rhetorical, as well as political and moral, goods of witnessing. Chapter 5 identifies the widely promoted ideal of forgiveness in late modernity as a timely test case with which to consider the worldly rhetorical effects that witnessing may be said to produce. Examining popular as well as institutional relationships between witnessing and forgiveness suggests crucial insights regarding the rhetorical efficacy of witnessing as a now-commonplace idiom in Western public culture.

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Ian Richards · Mathematics Magazine · 1975

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Takashi Yagisawa · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2009

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John Barrow · 1999

Abstract In Impossibility, John D. Barrow—one of our most elegant and accomplished science writers—argues convincingly that there are limits to human discovery, that there are things that are ultimately unknowable, undoable, or unreachable. Barrow first examines the limits of the human mind: our brain evolved to meet the demands of our immediate environment, and much that lies outside this small circle may also lie outside our understanding. He investigates practical impossibilities, such as those imposed by complexity, uncomputability, or the finiteness of time, space, and resources. Is the universe finite or infinite? Can information be transmitted faster than the speed of light? The book also examines deeper theoretical restrictions on our ability to know, including Godel’s theorem, which proved that there were things that could not be proved. Finally, having explored the limits imposed on us from without, Barrow considers whether there are limits we should impose upon ourselves. Weaving together this intriguing tapestry, Barrow illuminates some of the most profound questions of science, from the possibility of time travel to the very structure of the universe.

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John Eivaz · Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew)

recorded at home, may 9th, 2009 - Fostex multitracker, old Casio keyboard, borrowed Ibanez electric guitar, first try at this sort of digital recording, testing one-two-three ... IMPOSSIBILITY Wish I were anywhere Captured in my fall Moonlight painting shadows Writing on the wall Seen the lie's last evidence Sight won't make it clear Distance throws the shroud down It was just another year Love remains unspoken But it's all I want to hear Knowing for a minute Is better than a year All we take for granted Comes to be a fuel for fear Send your words to hold me Send your words to free Each opens its moment Of a world that might just be Love cannot be weakened By impossibility ~~~~

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The Derrida Dictionary · 2010

Derrida famously describes deconstruction as ‘the experience of the impossible’. However, impossibility in Derrida’s thinking is not simply the opposite of possibility. To act in the interests of what is already given as ‘possible’ – to welcome the welcomable, forgive the forgivable, invent the inve

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Impossibility Fiction

Derek Littlewood, Peter Stockwell · 1996

Impossibility fiction is an 'intergenre' that has recently been the resort of many writers searching for new ways of understanding and expressing the real world of the imagination, making use of fantasy, alternative history and science fiction. Coping with ideas that are both impossible and realistically constructed is the ultimate contemporary challenge of our technology. The chapters of this book move towards establishing appropriate readings that allow contemporary readers to negotiate unreality, a skill that the end of the millennium is making inevitably necessary. Such strategies have long been the preserve of literary and cultural study, and here a number of well-regarded scholars and some new to the field make their contribution to an area that has become increasingly important in recent years. From Mary Shelley to Philip K. Dick, Iain M. Banks to J.G. Ballard, taking in African-American science fiction, Jurassic Park, and Kurt Vonnegut, and exploring issues of alternative history and ideology, feminism, the holocaust, characterisation, and impossible geography, this collection is an important source-book for all those interested in the literature, culture and philosophy of realistic impossible worlds.

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Escaping Impossibility

Thelathia Nikki Young · QTR : · 2024

Abstract This article forwards the idea that to be human is to be free and possible, without limiting predetermination or signification. Such a claim is ontological, establishing freedom as both a divine enterprise and an ethical aim for humanity, and recognizable in God, our neighbors, and ourselves. This article also asserts that colonization—particularly the colonial gaze—along with economies of slavery pervert the recognition of ontological freedom and establish an epistemic frame of Blackness that renders Black lives and being unlivable, impossible. However, Black queer ethics—in its construction and use of virtues, values, and practices from Black queer folks—reframes freedom by turning back to the fundamental idea of what it means to be. This article ultimately suggests that Black queer ethics makes use of the processes of creative resistance, fugitivity, and un/making to reestablish freedom for human beings who have been especially unrecognized as livable and oppressed through signification.

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