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"Had the Soviet security apparatus decided [to retain Lev Landau in Moscow’s
\nLubyanka prison in 1989], physics today would be very different. Landau
\nexplained [Pyotr] Kapitsa’s discovery within a few months, and over the next
\nthree decades left his mark on virtually every area of physics, from
\nastrophysics and cosmology to the study of magnetic materials.  Landau also
\ninvented a revolutionary new theory of phase transitions, a theory of how
\nsubstances of all kinds change their forms" (158).\"Phase<\/p>\n

Stole away several pages of Mark Buchanan’s Nexus<\/i> on the flights today
\nfrom KC to Detroit to Syracuse.  Once in town, D. and I checked out an
\napartment, four houses, and, after a delectable dinner on Marshall Street, drove
\naround a bit more until it was too dark to see.<\/p>\n

I’m tired and scattered-feeling, but I wanted to post a few notes about
\nLandau while I was thinking of it.  According to one of Buchanan’s end
\nnotes, "Landau’s explanation [of Kapitsa’s discovery?] later won him a Nobel
\nPrize.  He showed how the laws of quantum theory turn liquid helium at low
\ntemperatures into ‘superfluid,’ a bizarre new liquid form of matter that lacks
\nany trace of internal friction.  A superfluid set swirling in a cup will
\nswirl forever, never coming to a rest."  <\/p>\n

Buchanan builds up to this through a snaking series of segments on
\necosystems, networks and organic structures.  Buchanan’s explanation of the
\nmolecular phases of water and Landau’s superfluid state strike me as incredibly
\nuseful for retooling metaphors of ideational flow–thought<\/i>, distributed. 
\nNext to his section on Tipping Points called "How Ideas Acquire People,"
\nBuchanan has me thinking that systems lacking "any trace of internal friction"
\nare so delicate that a superfluid state (superfluousness?) cannot prosper except
\nunder artificially controlled<\/i> conditions. Only with total control and
\nsubjectivity is sustained superfluidity possible.  (Get your glue stick;
\nthis is going to need some holding together.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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