Michael Whitworth Einstein's Wake

Michael Whitworth, British philosopher and academician, currently a teacher at Oxford University, has written a book titled Einstein’s Wake: Relativity, Metaphor and Modernist Literature. In this book, he examines the popularization of science in the modernist era, theories of matter to theories of self and Einstein’s theories of relativity through the concept of simultaneity.
“Scientific facts in literary texts need to be understood primarily as a rhetorical ploy, one form of what Barthes termed the ‘reality function’; the literary context evacuates them of their content. Of course, the way that a literary writer treats scientific facts, scientists, and discussions of science in his or her works is not to be ignored: it can indicate the level of receptivity to more significant scientific ideas” (Whitworth 17)
As Thomas Kuhn states, science goes through continuous revolutions and through an acceptance process of other theories or philosophies that ring true to what a particular group of scientific thinkers deem important and

He is known to have famously stated in an interview that, as an Objectivist poet, he creates a reality that is synonymous and synchronous with the reality that is popularly considered as truth. “[...] thinking with the things as they exist. I come into a room and I see a table. Obviously, I can 't make it eat grass." (Davidson 521) This famous quote, without perspective, would seem to paint Zukofsky as a hypocrite. It would seem that Zukofsky has neatly forgotten that he does construct a reality that has fluid edges, in his work “A”. However, it is ironic that Zukofsky speaks of context with regards to this quote, for he states that for the table to be able to eat grass, further context of that sphere of reality would be required. Thus, he makes allowances for the existence of another