Clarissa AL Lee's Lateral Worlds

Recently, I've been geeking out alot on Amazon, looking for non-library material to fill my dissertation hit list. As I receive each of these books, I'll talk about them here. What I am happy about, most recently, is that I finally found a compromise for my dissertation: I get to, somewhat, write about what interests me, while conforming to the strictures of my discipline and the dissertation. But the challenge ahead remains. Now I have to write that first chapter,  compile a bibliography (that I will add to over here), and also expand that proposal outline into a fleshy prospectus. This Monday, I found an English translation to L Mandelstamm and Ig Tamm article on "The Uncertainty Relation Between Energy and Time in Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics." It was in a bound volume of the Russian Journal of Physics that Duke Library happens to have. What brought about that interest? Well, it has to do somewhat with quantum fluctuations and semi-classical mechanics. Ye...

 I think I have to jettison this idea for now. Won't work into the dissertation time-frame...but definitely fruit for consideration post-dissertation. --------------------------- I've been thinking about the necessity of performing some sort of a science apprenticeship as a way of better understanding how science at a deep level. I don't think taking courses will help as much as attempting to work on a problem. But what problem should that be? Time to hit the archives.