Fred Alan Wolf, Mind and the New Physics. London: Heinemann, 1985.
Hardcover, dustwrapper, 342 pages, diagrams in the text.
Two-inch tear in dustwrapper without loss (see image), light foxing on the endpapers, edges of the text-block, and dustwrapper. Good condition.
'A century ago, the theories of Freud and Darwin changed society's view of itself. Today we may be on the brink of another and perhaps even more fundamental intellectual revolution as the theories of Quantum Physics gain currency.
'Mind and the New Physics sets out to explore how the most powerful and rigorous science yet devised may come to change our perceptions, and even our feelings and sensations.
'Fred Alan Wolf was a Professor of Physics who decided to devote himself to the implications of his studies for the future of society. His book contains may new ideas which may appear bizarre to the ordinary reader at first, but may be profoundly important for all of us:
'* that the future is more important than the past in deciding the present
'*that the future already exists while the past is continually being recreated
'*that time, as we now understand it, is an illusion
'*that the concepts of science have equivalents in human psychology: that energy = feelings, momentum = intuition and time = thought.
'With 80 diagrams, charts and illustrations this is a challenging and original new book by the author of Taking the Quantum Leap, a bestseller which won an American Book Award in 1982.'
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'Fred Alan Wolf (born December 3, 1934) is an American theoretical physicist specializing in quantum physics and the relationship between physics and consciousness. He is a former physics professor at San Diego State University, and has helped to popularize science on the Discovery Channel. He is the author of a number of physics-themed books including Taking the Quantum Leap (1981), The Dreaming Universe (1994), Mind into Matter (2000), and Time Loops and Space Twists (2011). Wolf was a member in the 1970s, with Jack Sarfatti and others, of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Fundamental Physics Group founded in May 1975 by Elizabeth Rauscher and George Weissmann. His theories about the interrelation of consciousness and quantum physics were described by Newsweek in 2007 as "on the fringes of mainstream science."' (Wikipedia)
