- 416 pages
- English
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About this book
“The most exciting intellectual adventure I've been on since reading Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.”
—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times
Gary Zukav’s timeless, humorous, New York Times bestselling masterpiece, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, is arguably the most widely acclaimed introduction to quantum physics ever written. Scientific American raves: “Zukav is such a skilled expositor, with such an amiable style, that it is hard to imagine a layman who would not find his book enjoyable and informative.” Accessible, edifying, and endlessly entertaining, The Dancing Wu Li Masters is back in a beautiful new edition—and the doors to the fascinating, dazzling, remarkable world of quantum physics are opened to all once again, no previous mathematical or technical expertise required.
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Searchable Terms
Note: Entries in this index, carried over verbatim from the print edition of this title, are unlikely to correspond to the pagination of any given e-book reader. However, entries in this index, and other terms, may be easily located by using the search feature of your e-book reader.
Absolute motion, 142, 183
Absolute non-motion, 141–47, 151–53, 184, 209
Absolute time, 166
Absolute truth, 41–42
Acceleration, 178
gravity and, 186
negative, 186–87
positive, 186–87
Accelerators
electron, 226
feeder, 226
particle, 215, 217–18, 219, 226
Admissions, 303
Albert Einstein, Philosopher-Scientist (ed. Schilpp), 262n
Allowed transitions, 302
Amplitude, 61
Analytic geometry, 337
Anderson, Carl, 235
Angular momentum, 231–34
Antimuon, 330
Anti-particles, 235, 239–40, 242, 243, 275, 276
Anti-protons, 263, 264
Aristotelianism, 72
Aristotle, 23, 287
Aspect, Alain, xxi, 327–28
Astronauts, 23
Astronomy, 53, 201–204
Ptolemaic, 217n
Atomic bombs, 175
Atomic level, 34
Atomic oscillators, 53–54, 55
Atomic phenomena, 21
Atomic reactors, 175
Atoms, 53–54, 114
Bohr’s theory on, 14–16, 114, 119
construction of, 12–13
ground state of, 14–15
the new physics and, 119–20
“Auguries of Innocence” (Blake), 167
Authentic power, xxix–xxx
Avatamsaka Sutra, 266n
Awareness movement, 173
Baryon number, 234n
Baryons, 228, 234, 235, 270–71, 273
Be Here Now (Dass), 173
Being, Non-being and, 341
Bell, J. S., xxi, 75, 313
Bell Telephone Laboratories, 107
Bell’s theorem, 252n, 285, 313–14, 322–26, 329–33, 339
quantum theory and, 322–23, 325–26, 329, 331, 334–35
“Beneath Time” (Finkelstein), 311
Bently, Richard, 25
Bible, 97, 173–74
Big Bang theory, 329n
Binary star system, 207
Birkbeck College, 221, 339
Birkhoff, Garrett, 292–93, 302, 310, 311
Black-body radiation, 54–55, 106, 233, 344
Black hole singularity, 206–207
Black hole theory, 205–209
Blake, William, 167
Blofeld, John, 266n
Bohm, David, xxi, 221, 316, 327, 329–30, 339–43
Bohr, Niels, xix, xx, xxv, 14–16, 28, 38, 40n, 41n, 57, 72, 109, 118, 125, 224
complementarity and, 41n, 103, 106, 223–24n, 338, 347
Einstein and, 290
Planck’s constant and, 233
planetary model of the atom, 110, 114–15, 117, 119–20, 223
on quantum mechanics, 28, 125–26,...
Table of contents
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Synoptic Table of Contents
- Cast of Characters
- Foreword by David Finkelstein
- Introduction to the Perennial Classics Edition
- Introduction
- Wu Li?
- Patterns of Organic Energy
- My Way
- Nonsense
- I Clutch My Ideas
- Enlightenment
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Searchable Terms
- Stable Particle Table
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Praise
- Copyright
- About the Publisher