The Conscious Universe Parts and Wholes in Physical Reality

Imagine that two people have been chosen to be observers in a scien­ tific experiment involving two photons, or quanta of light. These pho­ tons originate from a single source and travel in opposite directions an equal distance halfway across the known universe to points where each will be measured...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kafatos, Menas, Nadeau, Robert (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2000, 2000
Edition:2nd ed. 2000
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Two Small Clouds: The Emergence of a New Physics
  • 2. The Strange New World of the Quantum: Wave-Particle Dualism
  • 3. Confronting a New Fact of Nature: Bell’s Theorem and the Aspect and Gisin Experiments
  • 4. Changing the Rules: A New Epistemology of Science
  • 5. The Logic of Nature: Complementarity and the New Biology
  • 6. Ancient Whispers: The Expanding Universe
  • 7. The Emergence of a New Vision: The Unfolding Universe
  • 8. Quantum Ontologies: Metaphysics in Modern Physics
  • 9. The Ceremony of Innocence: Physics, Metaphysics, and the Dialog between Science and Religion
  • Appendix. Horizons of Knowledge in Cosmological Models
  • Hypothesis of Large-Scale Complementarities
  • Quantum Resolution of Cosmological Measurement Problems
  • Notes
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