The non-local universe : the new physics and matters of the mind / by Robert Nadeau and Menas Kafatos.
Classical physics states that physical reality is local, or that a measurement at one point in space cannot cannot influence what occurs at another beyond a fairly short distance. Until recently this seemed like an immutable truth in nature. However, in 1997 experiments were conducted in which light...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Quantum Nonlocality: An Amazing New Fact of Nature; CHAPTER 2 Leaving the Realm of the Visualizable: Waves, Quanta, and the Rise of Quantum Theory; CHAPTER 3 Quantum Connections: Wave-Particle Dualism; CHAPTER 4 Over Any Distance in "No Time": Bell's Theorem and the Aspect and Gisin Experiments; CHAPTER 5 Ways of Knowing: A New Epistemology of Science; CHAPTER 6 The Logic of Nature: Complementarity and the New Biology; CHAPTER 7 The Evolution of Mind: The Symbol-Making Animal; CHAPTER 8 Mind Matters: Mega-Narratives and the Two-Culture War.