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What Makes a Utopia Inconvenient? On the Advantages and Disadvantages of a Realist Orientation to Politics
Contemporary politics is often said to lack utopias. For prevailing understandings of the practical force of political theory, this looks like cause for celebration. As blueprints to apply to political practice, utopias invariably seem too strong or too weak. Through an immanent critique of political realism, I argue that utopian thought, and political theory generally, is better conceived as supplying an orientation to politics. Realists including Bernard Williams and Raymond Geuss explain how utopian programs like universal human rights poorly orient their adherents to politics, but the realists wrongly conclude that utopias and other ideal theories necessarily disorient us. As I show through an analysis of utopian claims made by Michel Foucault, Malcolm X, and John Rawls, utopias today can effectively disrupt entrenched forms of legitimation, foster new forms of political identity, and reveal new possibilities within existing institutions. Utopias are needed to understand the political choices we face today
Dynamics of mistuned radial turbine wheels
This paper presents investigations carried out at Holset into the dynamics of mistuned
radial turbine wheels, including a literature review, a lumped parameter model,
identification of the most responsive blade, distribution of the peak maximum order
response and a method of mistiming identification
High-resolution spatial mapping of a superconducting NbN wire using single-electron detection
Superconducting NbN wires have recently received attention as detectors for
visible and infrared photons. We present experiments in which we use a NbN wire
for high-efficiency (40 %) detection of single electrons with keV energy. We
use the beam of a scanning electron microscope as a focussed, stable, and
calibrated electron source. Scanning the beam over the surface of the wire
provides a map of the detection efficiency. This map shows features as small as
150 nm, revealing wire inhomogeneities. The intrinsic resolution of this
mapping method, superior to optical methods, provides the basis of a
characterization tool relevant for photon detectors.Comment: 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference, Science and Technology
for Humanity (TIC-STH
Understanding the internal structures of the , , and
We investigate the newly observed and based on the
diquark-antidiquark configuration within the framework of QCD sum rules. Both
of them may be interpreted as the -wave tetraquark states
of , but with opposite color structures, which is remarkably similar
to the result obtained in Ref.~\cite{Chen:2010ze} that the and
can be both interpreted as the -wave tetraquark
states of , also with opposite color structures. However, the
extracted masses and these suggested assignments to these states do depend
on these running quark masses where m_s (2 \mbox{ GeV}) = 95 \pm 5 MeV and
GeV. As a byproduct, the masses of the
hidden-bottom partner states of the and are extracted to be
both around 10.64 GeV, which can be searched for in the
invariant mass distribution.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures. Accepted by Eur. Phys. J.
New molecular candidates: X(1910), X(2200), and X(2350)
Assuming the newly observed resonant structures X(1910), X(2200), and X(2350)
as , , and molecular states respectively,
we compute their mass values in the framework of QCD sum rules. The numerical
results are for state,
for state, and for state, which
coincide with the experimental values of X(1910), X(2200), and X(2350),
respectively. This supports the statement that X(1910), X(2200), and X(2350)
could be , , and molecular candidates
respectively.Comment: 9 pages, 9 eps figures; the name of X(2000) changed to X(1910)
according to the updated data of experiments; more references and discussions
added; accepted for publication in PRD. arXiv admin note: substantial text
overlap with arXiv:1211.2277, arXiv:1201.341
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