Sadri Hassani: Quanta in Distress

Cover: 9783031652585 | Quanta in Distress | How New Age Gurus Kidnapped Quantum Physics

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Beschreibung

This book deconstructs and debunks the lucrative and widespread marriage of quantum physics with pop-spirituality while tracing this pernicious strain of pseudoscience to its source: the founders of quantum mechanics themselves. The association of mystical ideas with modern physics in the self-improvement industry is not new. The ¿spookiness¿ of quantum properties like uncertainty and entanglement has proven fertile ground for new-age mystics and alternative medicine advocates who saw a way to put a scientific veneer on their claims. In the early days, the founders of quantum physics accused it of implying an observer-created reality. Later, Taoists and Wu Li dancers were quantized. Then ancient Indian medicine, Ayurveda, morphed into ¿quantum healing.¿ Little wonder The Oprah Winfrey Show told its viewers: think about losing weight, making more money, and falling in love, and yoüll become thin, wealthy, and happily married ¿ all based on quantum physics. Criticism of the pseudoscientific misappropriation of quantum physics has been widespread but inadequate; thus far, the scientific community has failed to account for its own role in the fusion of pop-spirituality and quantum physics. As well as thoroughly exploring and debunking quantum mysticism, this book traces the development of quantum mysticism and pulls no punches in exposing the unwitting role of quantum theory¿s founders in propagating quantum mysticism.

Über den Autor

Sadri Hassani is Professor Emeritus of physics at Illinois State University and Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from Princeton University and is currently on the editorial board of Springer-Nature's Graduate Texts in Physics series. His first publication, Mathematical Physics, a graduate-level textbook now in its third edition, has become an authoritative text on the subject. His current area of interest is using physics as a venue for the dissemination of critical thinking. He lives with his wife in Champaign, IL.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Of gods, goddesses, and philosophers.- Chapter 2: Sins of the fathers.- Chapter 3: Certainty of the probable.- Chapter 4: Pathway to quantum mysticism.- Chapter 5: Quantum consciousness crosses the Atlantic.- Chapter 6: Eastern plague of the sixties.- Chapter 7: Inventing modern physics.- Chapter 8: The Standard Model.- Chapter 9: Are you the universe.- Chapter 10: Messenger is not the message.- Chapter 11: What is to be done.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Fachbereich:	Astronomie
Genre:	Mathematik , Medizin , Naturwissenschaften , Physik , Technik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xvii 213 S. 11 s/w Illustr. 9 farbige Illustr. 213 p. 20 illus. 9 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783031652585
ISBN-10:	3031652584
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hassani, Sadri
Hersteller:	Springer Nature Switzerland Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	235 x 155 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	Sadri Hassani
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.10.2024
Gewicht:	0,401 kg