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Bezig met laden... Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effectdoor Paul Halpern
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A double-natured book. Inasmuch as it's a history of fundamental physics (from the likes of Pythagoras and Empedocles down to the present day), it covers the same territory as the works of numerous other authors. Inasmuch as it's an analysis of "long-range connections without causal mechanisms" such as quantum entanglement, it is rather unique. For part of the analysis, Halpern employs his tried-and-true strategy of detailing the interactions between two famous individuals -- in this case physicist Wolfgang Pauli and psychologist Carl Jung (who utilized "synchronicity" to mean "an acausal connecting principle"). geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"In Synchronicity Paul Halpern tells the little-known story of the unlikely friendship between the Nobel-prize-winning quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the father of psychoanalysis, Carl Jung. In the 1930s, Pauli and Jung began collaborating on a unified theory of quantum and the mind, the result of which was Jung's synchronicity principle-the idea that events connected by meaning need not be explained by causality. Pauli's work on entanglement theory, which allowed for instantaneous cause and effect relationships, was particularly appealing to Jung, as it seemed to give weight to his controversial theory of a collective unconscious. Casting their relationship within a larger intellectual history of entanglement theory, Halpern poses a question that has mystified physicists and philosophers alike since the times of Aristotle: Is the speed of light finite, as Einstein posited, or is it, as Pauli and the proponents of entanglement theory asserted, variable across time and dimensions? As Halpern works his way through the history of the physics of cause and effect, he shows that this centuries-old debate is not only relevant at the smallest scales of particle physics but also at the largest scales of the cosmos itself"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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