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Informationen zum Autor Michael Talbot Klappentext Nowhere is the "paradigm shift"-the radical change of perspective that is sweeping the Western world-advancing so rapidly as in physics. Mystics and "idealists" have always propounded the idea that the world is an illusion. Now quantum physics is putting forward theories that reinforce this belief. Until recently, the empirical approach of physicists such as Newton has taught us that the world exists with or without human consciousness to observe it. But we can never be totally objective about reality. The human mind, with all its preconceived notions and prejudices, always intrudes, even in the most scientific of experiments, making true objectivity impossible to achieve. The new physicists state that reality is a combination of the laws of the physical world, quantifiable and unequivocal, and the subjective viewpoint of the observer. This "omnijective view" of the universe challenges all our most deeply held scientific beliefs and could radically change the way we view reality in the future. As our constructs are amended to this shift in approach, we can anticipate monumental changes in Western thought. Zusammenfassung An account of how quantum physics is putting forward ideas that confirm the perceived beliefs of mystics who think the world is an illusion Inhaltsverzeichnis Mysticism and the New PhysicsIntroduction PART ONE: CONSCIOUSNESS AND REALITY Chapter One: Observer and Participant Heinsenberg's Uncertainty Principle The myth of casuality Schrödinger's cat Von Neumann's catastrophe of infinite regression The Copenhagen collapse Consciousness as the hidden variable Self-reference cosmologies The participator principle The structure of matter may not be independent of consciousness The garden of the forking paths The many worlds hypothesis Chapter Two: A Holographic Model of Consciousness Holograms The existence of consciousness The interconnection of all portions of the brain The quantum principle Causality and holism The fields of life The human biocomputer Cognitional multi-dimensional projection spaces A holographic model of consciousness The light inside the head The bootstrap theory The reality-structurer Fields, within fields, within fields PART TWO: THE STRUCTURE OF SPACE-TIME Chapter Three: Superspace Fire walkers The world of the very small Waves and particles The limits of our language Quanta The curvature of space Physics is geometry The quantum foam Geometrodynamics Miniblackholes and miniwhiteholes Wormholes in the fabric of space-time Particles as undulations in the nothingness The quantum interconnectedness of the universe The space-time code The chromosomes of matter Existences or essences? The superhologram of reality Chapter Four: Beyond the Light Cone Beyond space-time Frames of reference The active future and the passive past Impossible world lines The light cone Elsewhere Tachyons and faster-than-light particles No future, no past, no time Positrons seen as electrons scattered backwards through time The time ordering of events Chapter Five: The Shape of Time An encounter with the Euphrates Retrocausality The shape of time Backwards movies of the future Time symmetry and butterflies embedded in glass An indefinite number of pasts The interpenetrating universes Memories of the future The prophecies of Quetzalcoatl Extraterrestrial anthropology Hyperspace and hypertime A new look at archetypal information A very strange Euphrates, indeed PART THREE: MYSTICISM AND THE NEW PHYSICS Chapter Six: Tantra and Quantum Theory Superspace versus the akasa Nada and bindu Lines of the magnetic field and the hai...
