The physics of James Joyce’s Ulysses

Enlarge / An early edition of one of Dublin’s most famous literary masterpieces: Ulysses by James Joyce, published in 1922.Fran Caffrey/AFP/Getty Images

Ulysses, the groundbreaking modernist novel by James Joyce, marked its 100-year anniversary last year; it was first published on February 2, 1922. The poet T.S Eliot declared the novel to be “the most important expression which the present age has found,” and Ulysses has accumulated many other fans in the ages since. Count Harry Manos, an English professor at Los Angeles City College, among those fans. Manos is also a fan of physics—so much so, that he penned

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