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Stapp, Henry P |
Mindful Universe |
I07959 |
2007 |
eBook |
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| 12 |
Gieser, Suzanne |
The Innermost Kernel |
I07916 |
2005 |
eBook |
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| 13 |
Tuszynski, Jack A |
The Emerging Physics of Consciousness |
I07856 |
2006 |
eBook |
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| 14 |
Petkov, Vesselin |
Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime |
I07751 |
2009 |
eBook |
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| 15 |
Elitzur, Avshalom C |
Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics? |
I07427 |
2005 |
eBook |
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| 16 |
Stapp, Henry P |
Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics |
I07244 |
2009 |
eBook |
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| 17 |
Stapp, Henry P |
Mindful Universe |
I07111 |
2011 |
eBook |
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| 18 |
Kox, A.J |
The Universe of General Relativity |
I06895 |
2005 |
eBook |
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| 19 |
Weinert, Friedel |
The Scientist as Philosopher |
I06246 |
2005 |
eBook |
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Renn, J??rgen |
The Genesis of General Relativity |
I05789 |
2007 |
eBook |
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| Title | Mindful Universe : Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer |
| Author(s) | Stapp, Henry P |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007. |
| Description | XII, 198 p. 9 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The classical mechanistic idea of nature that prevailed in science during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an essentially mindless conception: the physically described aspects of nature were asserted to be completely determined by prior physically described aspects alone, with our conscious experiences entering only passively. During the twentieth century the classical concepts were found to be inadequate. In the new theory, quantum mechanics, our conscious experiences enter into the dynamics in specified ways not fixed by the physically described aspects alone. Consequences of this radical change in our understanding of the connection between mind and brain are described. "Stapp's book is a bold and original attack on the problem of consciousness and free will based on the openings provided by the laws of quantum mechanics. This is a serious and interesting attack on a truly fundamental problem." Tony Leggett [Physics Nobel Laureate, 2003] "Stapp's wide-ranging proposal offers stimulating reading, a strong sense of conceptual coherence and intuitive appeal, and empirical predictions that deserve to be refined and tested." Harald Atmanspacher "A highly readable book of genuine wisdom by one of the foremost minds for our generation." Allan Combs |
| ISBN,Price | 9783540724148 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. PHILOSOPHY
4. Philosophy, general
5. Popular Science, general
6. Popular works
7. QUANTUM PHYSICS
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| Title | The Innermost Kernel : Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung |
| Author(s) | Gieser, Suzanne |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005. |
| Description | XIV, 378 p. 29 illus., 4 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | "The Innermost Kernel" recounts the physicist and Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Pauli and his interest in Jungian psychology, philosophy and western world-view. It is also an exploration of the intellectual setting and context of Pauli's thinking, which has its starting point in the cultural and intellectual climate of fin-de-si??cle Europe. As a contribution to the general history of quantum physics this study has a special focus on the psychological and philosophical issues discussed by physicists belonging to the Copenhagen school. The work is mainly based on the correspondence of the principle characters and explores some of the central issues discussed there, as for instance the subject-object relation, complementarity, the relation of conscious and unconscious, the process underlying concept-formation, the psychology of scientific discovery, the symbolic world of alchemy, the theories of archetypes and of synchronicity. Ultimately this book is about a remarkable scientist searching for a new understanding of the interrelatedness of man and world |
| ISBN,Price | 9783540269861 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. PHILOSOPHY
4. Philosophy and science
5. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
6. Philosophy, general
7. PHYSICS
8. Physics, general
9. Popular Science, general
10. Popular works
11. QUANTUM PHYSICS
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| Title | The Emerging Physics of Consciousness |
| Author(s) | Tuszynski, Jack A |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. |
| Description | XVI, 487 p. 140 illus., 5 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Consciousness remains one of the major unsolved problems in science. How do the feelings and sensations making up conscious experience arise from the concerted actions of nerve cells and their associated synaptic and molecular processes? Can such feelings be explained by modern science, or is there an entirely different kind of explanation needed? And how can this seemingly intractable problem be approached experimentally? How do the operations of the conscious mind emerge out of the specific interactions involving billions of neurons? This book seeks answers to these questions on the underlying assumption that consciousness can be understood using the intellectual potential of modern physics and other sciences. There are a number of theories of consciousness, some based on classical physics while others require the use of quantum concepts. The latter ones have drawn criticism from the parts of the scientific establishment while simultaneously claiming that classical approaches are doomed to failure. The contributing authors present a spectrum of opinions from both sides of this on-going scientific debate, allowing readers to decide for themselves which of the approaches are most likely to succeed |
| ISBN,Price | 9783540367239 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. NEUROBIOLOGY
4. Neurosciences
5. PHILOSOPHY
6. Philosophy, general
7. PHYSICS
8. Physics, general
9. QUANTUM PHYSICS
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| Title | Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime |
| Author(s) | Petkov, Vesselin |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. |
| Description | XIII, 316 p. 70 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The most important question that is addressed in this book is "what is the nature (the ontological status) of spacetime?" or, equivalently, "what is the dimensionality of the world at the macroscopic level?" The answer to this question is developed via a thorough analysis of relativistic effects and explicitly asking whether the objects involved in those effects are three-dimensional or four-dimensional. This analysis clearly shows that if the world and the physical objects were three-dimensional, none of the kinematic relativistic effects and the experimental evidence supporting them would be possible. The implications of this result for physics, philosophy, and our entire world view are discussed. This new edition has been significantly expanded with new sections, appendices, notes and references. The arguments of the previous edition are strengthened; new developments in the field are presented and integrated to yield a thoroughly convincing and clear treatment |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642019623 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GRAVITATION
5. Mathematical Methods in Physics
6. PHILOSOPHY
7. Philosophy, general
8. PHYSICS
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| Title | Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics? |
| Author(s) | Elitzur, Avshalom C;Dolev, Shahar;Kolenda, Nancy |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005. |
| Description | XIV, 421 p. 61 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | For more than a century, quantum mechanics has served as a very powerful theory that has expanded physics and technology far beyond their classical limits, yet it has also produced some of the most difficult paradoxes known to the human mind. This book represents the combined efforts of sixteen of today's most eminent theoretical physicists to lay out future directions for quantum physics. The authors include Yakir Aharonov, Anton Zeilinger; the Nobel laureates Anthony Leggett and Geradus 't Hooft; Basil Hiley, Lee Smolin and Henry Stapp. Following a foreword by Roger Penrose, the individual chapters address questions such as quantum non-locality, the measurement problem, quantum insights into relativity, cosmology and thermodynamics, and the possible bearing of quantum phenomena on biology and consciousness |
| ISBN,Price | 9783540266693 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GRAVITATION
5. PHILOSOPHY
6. Philosophy, general
7. QUANTUM COMPUTERS
8. Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics
9. QUANTUM PHYSICS
10. SPINTRONICS
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| Title | Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics |
| Author(s) | Stapp, Henry P |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. |
| Description | XVII, 301 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | "Scientists other than quantum physicists often fail to comprehend the enormity of the conceptual change wrought by quantum theory in our basic conception of the nature of matter," writes Henry Stapp. Stapp is a leading quantum physicist who has given particularly careful thought to the implications of the theory that lies at the heart of modern physics. In this book, which contains several of his key papers as well as new material, he focuses on the problem of consciousness and explains how quantum mechanics allows causally effective conscious thought to be combined in a natural way with the physical brain made of neurons and atoms. The book is divided into four sections. The first consists of an extended introduction. Key foundational and somewhat more technical papers are included in the second part, together with a clear exposition of the "orthodox" interpretation of quantum mechanics. The third part addresses, in a non-technical fashion, the implications of the theory for some of the most profound questions that mankind has contemplated: How does the world come to be just what it is and not something else? How should humans view themselves in a quantum universe? What will be the impact on society of the revised scientific image of the nature of man? The final part contains a mathematical appendix for the specialist and a glossary of important terms and ideas for the interested layman. This third edition has been significantly expanded with two new chapters covering the author's most recent work |
| ISBN,Price | 9783540896548 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Elementary particles (Physics)
4. Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
5. PHILOSOPHY
6. Philosophy, general
7. Popular Science, general
8. Popular works
9. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
10. QUANTUM PHYSICS
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| Title | Mindful Universe : Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer |
| Author(s) | Stapp, Henry P |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. |
| Description | XIII, 212 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The classical mechanistic idea of nature that prevailed in science during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an essentially mindless conception: the physically described aspects of nature were asserted to be completely determined by prior physically described aspects alone, with our conscious experiences entering only passively. During the twentieth century the classical concepts were found to be inadequate. In the new theory, quantum mechanics, our conscious experiences enter into the dynamics in specified ways not fixed by the physically described aspects alone. Consequences of this radical change in our understanding of the connection between mind and brain are described. This second edition contains two new chapters investigating the role of quantum phenomena in the problem of free will and in the placebo effect |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642180767 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. PHILOSOPHY
4. Philosophy, general
5. Popular Science, general
6. Popular works
7. QUANTUM PHYSICS
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| Title | The Universe of General Relativity |
| Author(s) | Kox, A.J;Eisenstaedt, Jean |
| Publication | Boston, MA, 1. Birkh??user Boston
2. Imprint: Birkh??user, 2005. |
| Description | X, 383 p. 17 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This volume from the Einstein Studies Series is based largely on papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on the History of General Relativity, held in Amsterdam on June 26-29, 2002. These contributions from notable experts offer both new and historical insights on gravitation, general relativity, cosmology, unified field theory, and the history of science. Topics discussed include the prehistory of special relativity, early attempts at a relativistic theory of gravitation, the beginnings of general relativity, the problem of motion in the context of relativity, conservation laws, the axiomatization of relativity, classical and contemporary cosmology, gravitation and electromagnetism, quantum gravity, and relativity as seen through the eyes of the public and renowned relativists. Contributors: K. Brading; G. Gale; H.F.M. Goenner; J. Goldberg; S. Katzir; D. Kennefick; H. Kragh; C. Lehner; U. Majer; J. Mattingly; E.T. Newman; J.D. Norton; J. Renn; R. Rynasiewicz; J.M. S??nchez-Ron; T. Sauer; C. Smeenk; J. Stachel; M. Wazeck; and D. W??nsch |
| ISBN,Price | 9780817644543 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. Elementary particles (Physics)
5. Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
6. GRAVITATION
7. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
8. PHILOSOPHY
9. Philosophy and science
10. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
11. Philosophy, general
12. PHYSICS
13. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
14. QUANTUM PHYSICS
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| Title | The Scientist as Philosopher : Philosophical Consequences of Great Scientific Discoveries |
| Author(s) | Weinert, Friedel |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005. |
| Description | XI, 344 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | How do major scientific discoveries reshape their originators???, and our own, sense of reality and concept of the physical world? The Scientist as Philosopher explores the interaction between physics and philosophy. Clearly written and well illustrated, the book first places the scientist-philosophers in the limelight as we learn how their great scientific discoveries forced them to reconsider the time-honored notions with which science had described the natural world. Then, the book explains that what we understand by nature and science have undergone fundamental conceptual changes as a result of the discoveries of electromagnetism, thermodynamics and atomic structure. Even more dramatically, the quantum theory and special theory of relativity questioned traditional assumptions about causation and the passage of time. The author concludes that the dance between science and philosophy is an evolutionary process, which will keep them forever entwined |
| ISBN,Price | 9783540270317 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. PHILOSOPHY
4. Philosophy, general
5. PHYSICS
6. Physics, general
7. Popular Science, general
8. Popular works
9. Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
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| Title | The Genesis of General Relativity : Sources and Interpretations |
| Author(s) | Renn, J??rgen |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2007. |
| Description | VIII, 619 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This four-volume work represents the most comprehensive documentation and study of the creation of general relativity; one of the fundamental physical theories of the 20th century. It comprises key sources from Einstein and others who from the late 19th to the early 20th century contributed to this monumental development. Some of these sources are presented here in translation for the first time. Einstein???s famous Zurich notebook, which documents the pivotal steps toward general relativity, is reproduced here for the first time and transcribed in its entirety. The volumes offer detailed commentaries and analyses of these sources that are based on a close reading of these documents supplemented by interpretations by the leading historians of relativity. All in all, the facets of this work, based on more than a decade of research, combine to constitute one of the most in-depth studies of a scientific revolution ever written |
| ISBN,Price | 9781402040009 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. EPISTEMOLOGY
5. GRAVITATION
6. HISTORY
7. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
8. PHILOSOPHY
9. Philosophy and science
10. PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE
11. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
12. Philosophy, general
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