Narrating Science – Physics for Non-physicists

Abstract

: At first glance, physics and literature could not be more opposite: un-equivocal terms, definitions and objectivity on the one side. Ambiguity, feelings and subjectivity on the other side. Both physics and literature also gain different social acknowledgment. While our society and economy are based on scientific and technical knowledge, it is to this day still no problem not to know the second law of thermodynamics (as C. P. Snow remarked about 50 years ago). Not knowing Shakespeare ’ s works, on the other hand, would be extremely embarrassing. What narrative-based learning for in physics subjective and literary form of access to structure of for those people who have with a purely formal