New Physics and Cosmology Dialogues with the Dalai Lama

Name: New Physics and Cosmology Dialogues with the Dalai Lama
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ISBN: 9780195159943

ISBN-10: 0195159942

ISBN-13: 9780195159943

Edition: 2003

Authors: Arthur Zajonc, Zara Houshmand, Zara Houshmand, Arthur Zajonc, Zara Houshmand

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What happens when the Dalai Lama meets with leading physicists and a historian? This book is the carefully edited record of the fascinating discussions at a Mind and Life conference in which five leading physicists and a historian (David Finkelstein, George Greenstein, Piet Hut, Arthur Zajonc, Anton Zeilinger, and Tu Weiming) discussed with the Dalai Lama current thought in theoretical quantum physics, in the context of Buddhist philosophy. A contribution to the science-religion interface, and a useful explanation of our basic understanding of quantum reality, couched at a level that intelligent readers without a deep involvement in science can grasp. In the tradition of other popular books…

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List price: $87.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/25/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.30" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Arthur Zajonc is Professor of Physics at Amherst College.



The Participants


Prelude



Experiment and Paradox in Quantum Physics



Philosophical Reflections on Quantum Realities



Space, Time, and the Quantum



Buddhist Views on Space and Time



Quantum Logic Meets Buddhist Logic



Participation and Personal Knowledge



The Relation between Scientific Knowledge and Human Experience



Investigating the World, Pondering the Mind



New Images of the Universe



Origins of the Universe and Buddhist Causality



Science in Search of a Worldview



Knowing and Suffering


Notes


About the Mind and Life Institute


Index