The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview Of The New Physics
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780006540304 (0006540309)
Publish date: 1986
Publisher: Flamingo
Pages no: 353
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Science,
Popular Science,
Physics,
Religion,
Philosophy,
Spirituality,
Occult,
Metaphysics,
New Age,
Mysticism
VX says it's a great intro to quantum physics.
In two words: Hippy Physics. Zukav published this manuscript in the 1970s and it really shows. Quantum theory was just coming into it's own and American exploration with mysticism and the philosophies of the East may have seemed like a perfect pair at the time. Some aspects of the comparison are com...
Read from the shelf of a beau. He was very philosophical.
Yesterday, I read some scathing comments about this book, and the closely related The Tao of Physics, in Woit's Not Even Wrong. Apparently, there used to a be an approach to quantum mechanics called S-matrix theory, which was popular among left-leaning physicists in the early 70s. Woit refers to "Th...
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