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- In Search of Divine Reality: Science as a Source of Inspiration
- Book
- 1997
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
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The message of modern physics is that physical reality has, at its frontiers, all the aspects of a transcendent order. At the foundation of things, elementary particles can exert instantaneous long-distance influences on each other, can be meaningfully said to have mind-like properties, and can exist in states which are, as Heisenberg wrote, “not quite real, but between the idea of a thing and a real thing.” Thus, just as dead atoms form living organisms and stupid molecules form intelligent brains, metaphysical entities form physical reality. This remarkable book clearly explains the concepts of quantum physics in order to show how science and spirituality are not separate.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction
- pp. 3-12
- Part I. In Search of the Transcendental Elements of Human Knowledge
- 1. The Composite Nature of Knowledge
- pp. 15-24
- Part II. In Search of Transcendental Physical Reality
- 2. The Wave-Particle Duality
- pp. 27-54
- Part III. In Search of Transcendental Human Nature
- 3. The Human Mystery
- pp. 57-68
- 4. Chance and Necessity
- pp. 69-82
- Part IV. Divine Reality
- 6. Healing the Wound
- pp. 95-110
- Appendix 2. The Failure of Intuition
- pp. 132-139
- Appendix 3. Some Aspects of Causality
- pp. 140-142
- Appendix 4. Science and the Humanities
- pp. 143-145
- Appendix 5. Popper’s Logic of Science
- pp. 146-151
- Appendix 7. Schrödinger’s Wave Mechanics
- pp. 158-159
- Appendix 8. The Meaning of Ψ
- pp. 160-162
- Appendix 9. Empty Atoms as Platonic Forms
- pp. 163-171
- Appendix 13. The Pauli Principle
- pp. 185-188
- Appendix 14. The EPR Paradox
- pp. 189-191
- References
- pp. 229-232
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610752022
Related ISBN(s)
9781557284587, 9781557284686
MARC Record
OCLC
654502148
Pages
253
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1997