book recommendation: quantum questions

[JoWo]

Thanks, Mark,  I'll check into this.

Greetings!
Jo.

[afstroker]

Hi. Try The Spiritual Universe by Fred Alan Wolf. He's a quantum physicist who understands how things work. I usually soak up new books, but this one took a while.

[afstroker]

JoWo's book and website also have deep insight into the nature of what we percieve as reality. Joachim, I'm not sure if you have read any of Fred Alan Wolf's work, but I see brilliant insight in you both. In infinity, all we can hope to find is repeating patterns of events. Paradox seems to be the one absolute in quantum physics.Ahh, the irony of having a quantum computer between our ears, and simultaneously being limited by our physical existence. Such is quantum reality!

John [8D]

[JoWo]

Thank you for your posts, John.  I have read Alan Wolf's The Spiritual Universe and I admire his expertise in quantum physics.  I also appreciate his drive towards defining the commonality with the spiritual.  Yet, somehow I am missing the last step towards a unified system.  Anyhow, I which that I had his scientific knowledge.

Greetings!
Jo.

[mustang]

If you all like Fred Alan Wolf's stuff and Fritjof Capra's I assume as well, you should try get hold of F David Peat's Blackfoot Physics.

It is about the commonality between North American Indian metaphysics and Quantum Mechanics. Peat is a particle physicist who studied under one of the greatest particle physicists, David Bohm, who was a colleague of Einstein's at Princeton. Peat most recently wrote a biography on Bohm.

The book is well worth checking out.

[afstroker]

Mustang, that book looks pretty good. It's available on amazon.com. Gonna give it a read. Hi JoWo. I've admired your thinking for several years now. I once sent you a poem I wrote to honor my grandfather. The final step to unification is an elusive one indeed!
I think the answer lies in paradox. What Is, Is not. Our minds are simultaneously here, bound by experiencing life, and infinite and timeless. When God expresses through our point of consciousness, we see ourselves "in here" and everything else "out there" when both are expressions of the same thing! What an elegant concept! The creator is at the beginning of time and at the end. In between is time, space, and all events ocurring in a plastic changing soup of the substance of creation. An infinite intelligence that is simultaneously you, me our animal friends, the earth, and all the ascending ranks of the holistic multiverse. All one. All separate expressions. What Is, Is not. We all add to the mosaic of creation with our understanding of it. You have added much to mine, I hope perhaps in a small way I may add to yours.

John []

[kifyre]

People interested in this stuff might want to check out Quantum Questions by Ken Wilber. It consists of collected writings of the fathers of QM and shows how they were basically all mystics. I haven't read it myself yet, but I'm sure it's excellent.

All the best,

Mark