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DESCRIPTION: \n	The Media of Relativity: Einstein and Telecommunications Tec
 hnologies\n		How are fundamental constants\, such as c for the speed of ligh
 t\, related to particular technological environments? Our understanding of
  the constant c and Einstein’s relativistic cosmology depended on key expe
 riences and lessons learned in connection to new forms of telecommunicatio
 ns\, first used by the military and later adapted for commercial purposes.
  Many of Einstein’s contemporaries understood his theory of relativity by 
 reference to telecommunications\, some referring to it as “signal-theory” 
 and “message theory.” Prominent physicists who contributed to it (Hans Rei
 chenbach\, Max Born\, Paul Langevin\, Louis de Broglie\, and Léon Brilloui
 n\, among others) worked in radio units during WWI. At the time of its dev
 elopment\, the old Newtonian mechanics was retrospectively rebranded as ba
 sed on the belief in a means of “instantaneous signaling at a distance.” E
 ven our thinking about lengths and solid bodies\, argued Einstein and his 
 interlocutors\, needed to be overhauled in light of a new understanding of
  signaling possibilities. Pulling a rod from one side will not make the ot
 her end move at once\, since relativity had shown that “this would be a si
 gnal that moves with infinite speed.” Einstein’s universe\, where time and
  space dilated\, where the shortest path between two points was often curv
 ed and which broke the laws of Euclidean geometry\, functioned according t
 o the rules of electromagnetic signal transmission. For some critics\, the
  new understanding of the speed of light as an unsurpassable velocity—a fu
 ndamental tenet of Einstein’s theory—was a mere technological effect relat
 ed to current limitations in communication technologies.\n\n\n\n	Jimena Can
 ales\n	Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science\, University of Ill
 inois\n\nProfessor Canales is the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of
  Science at Illinois and the author of numerous scholarly and journalistic
  texts on the history of modernity\, focusing primarily on science and tec
 hnology. Her first book\, A Tenth of a Second (Chicago\, 2010)\, explores 
 the relation between science and history as one of the central intellectua
 l problems of modern times. Her second book\, The Physicist and The Philos
 opher: Einstein\, Bergson\, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding 
 of Time has been recently published by Princeton University Press. Canales
 ' work on the history of science had been published in Isis\, Science in C
 ontext\, History of Science\, the British Journal for the History of Scien
 ce\, and the MLN\, among others\; topics on visual\, film and media studie
 s have appeared in Architectural History\, Journal of Visual Culture\, Thr
 esholds\, Aperture\, Artforum and WiRED magazine.\n\nProfessor Canales is 
 the graduate student speaker choice for 2015\, and will conduct a seminar 
 on her work the afternoon before her talk.\n
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LOCATION:260\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue Sherb
 rooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Speaker Series | 'The Media of Relativity: Einstein and Telecommuni
 cations Technologies' | Jimena Canales
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 ty-einstein-and-telecommunications-technologies-jimena-canales-255259
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