In his groundbreaking book Predictions, Theodore Modis showed readers a fascinating new way to understand our society and ourselves by applying fundamental scientific concepts to predicting social phenomena. Now he pushes his physics-applied-to-life approach further to show that some fundamental truths cast into scientific laws are ubiquitous and enter our lives in subtle ways that we may not be aware of. In a kind of twenty-first century version of Plato's Dialogues he offers new insights on life's many possibilities and ambiguities everywhere from managing business and personal relationships to finding purpose in one's existence. This book will titillate the mind of all science-friendly readers.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- 1 – Signs of Disenchantment
- 2 – There Cannot Be Magic
- 3 – Precocious Cross-Disciplinarity
- 4 – The Order of Mendios
- 5 – Hypnosis Demystified
- 6 – A Weirdoes Filing Cabinet
- 7 – Making Contact with the G. Institute
- 8 – Running after Entropy on Saturday Morning
- 9 – Why Is the Sky Dark at Night?
- 10 – Make Space for Time
- 11 – Intricate Aspects of Time
- 12 – The Humanities of Science
- 13 – Accidents, Karma, Destiny, Miracles
- 14 – As Above so Below
- 15 – Mathematics with Social Use
- 16 – The Power of Attention
- 17 – Love Science
- 18 – The Opposite of a Great Truth Is another Great Truth
- 19 – Opposites Meet
- 20 – Life Feeds on Differences
- 21 – The Harmony in Moderation
- 22 – The Symbolism of the Cross
- 23 – Mind over Body
- 24 – If I can, I want
- 25 – Management Science
- 26 – The S-Shaped Adventure
- 27 – Using S-Curves to Unearth Secrets
- 28 – Symmetries and Invariants
- 29 – The Shape of Things
- 30 – Natural Growth in Competition
- 31 – Showing Off at Conferences
- 32 – Publishing for Fun, not for Survival
- 33 – Entelechy
- 34 – One Cannot Part with Knowledge, Much Less with Understanding
- 35 – Setting Straight the AIDS Threat
- 36 – Scientific Certification
- 37 – A Down-to-Earth Nobel Laureate
- 38 – Fallout
- 39 – Growth Dynamics
- 40 – “If winter is here, can springbe far behind?” Percy B. Shelley
- 41 – Scientifically Sanitized Biorhythms
- 42 – A Leadership School Experiment
- 43 – Insights into Fluctuations
- 44 – Accelerating Trends and The Singularity Myth
- 45 – A Paradise Paradigm
- 46 – Science with Street Value
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography