Abstract
In the last century the development and transfer of knowledge had relied primarily on verbal language, a communication tool ideal for reflection, meditation, comprehension, analysis and the research of the know-why. No more than a dozen images are contained in the classical Course of Theoretical Physics by Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz, a series of ten volumes used in the last century as a basic reference for three generations of physicists. Since the Eighties the development of technology has facilitated the production and dissemination of images. The visual language stimulates perception, promotes the acquisition of a synthesis and know-how, overcomes language barriers. And the communication by images facilitates the process of globalization, which in turn helps to stimulate it. Objective of this paper is to shed light on the cognitive power of the visual technical images. We’ll focus on two classes of images: the ambiguous images as tool for the transfer of knowledge, and the fractal images as source of knowledge.
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The molecular gerade centersymmetric stationary bonding state and the ungerade centerantisymmetric stationary antibonding state.
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The difference between the energy levels associated to the above stationary states.
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Stationary symmetric and antisymmetric states.
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The process of spectroscopic measurement or the optical illusion (but is it an illusion?), irreversible by nature, can be understood only in terms of the stationarity of the centersymmetric and centerantisymmetric states.
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Caglioti, G. (2015). Cognitive Power of Visual Images. In: Cocchiarella, L. (eds) The Visual Language of Technique. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05341-7_3
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