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This Theoretical Physicist Boldly Goes Where Few Black Women Have Gone Before
In her new book, Harvard-educated Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her vision of the cosmos and breaks down the sexism and racism inherent in science. By S.C. Stuart
Feb. 18, 2021, 7:57 p.m.
Milky Way from the Atacama desert (Alberto Ghizzi Panizza/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein spends a good amount of her research time untangling spacetime and seeking out gravitational waves. And in her forthcoming book,
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams DeferredThe Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, the Harvard grad and theoretical physicist offers a modern take on the mind-bending concepts that have fascinated scientists for centuries.
A Black Physicist On The Freedom Of Dreaming In Equations Essence 2/18/2021 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
This article, A Black Femme Dreams in Equations, originally appeared in the January/February issue of ESSENCE magazine, available on newsstands now.
I’m a Black feminist theoretical physicist who studies the origins of spacetime and dark matter; and I feel most at home scientifically with a Lagrangian. The Lagrangian is an equation tied to the most fundamental properties of a physical system. There are rules for how to extract information from a Lagrangian: What is the system’s future? What is its past? I can gather these pieces of information by calculating the equations of motion from the Lagrangian these tell us how the system evolves. I can also calculate the energy in a system. This is the Hamiltonian. Technically the Hamiltonian framework is an equivalent one to the Lagrangian, but I don’t feel as at home with it.
The Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2021 By PW Staff | Feb 17, 2021
Drawn from the 14,000+ titles in PW s Spring Announcements issue, we asked our reviews editors to pick the most notable books publishing in Spring 2021. Links to reviews are included when available.
Fiction
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove, Mar.) - Nguyen follows his Pulitzer-winning The Sympathizer with a sequel about a Vietnamese refugee in 1980s Paris who becomes a drug dealer on his path to assimilation. The novel earned a starred review from PW.
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June) - Widow herbalist Katharina gets slapped with an accusation of witchcraft in 1618 Germany by a neighbor whom she calls “the Werewolf” in Galchen’s novel of a small town feverish with fear.