The New physics and cosmology: Dialogues with the Dalai Lama

Arthur Zajonc, Zara Houshmand9780195159943, 0-19-515994-2

The Dalai Lama, three physicists, two astrophysicists, and a historian walk into a bar … Actually they met in Dharamsala, India, in 1997 and spent a week talking soberly about their intersecting interests: Buddhist philosophy and modern physics, disciplines that take different paths in attempting to explain the nature of reality. The result is this meditation, laid out transcript style, on issues of heaven and earth-the timeless metaphysical implications presented by the newest of Western sciences. The editor, who was one of the participants in the dialogues, teaches physics at Amherst College and is a founding member of the Kira Institute, which explores the relationships among science, values, and spirituality.

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Table of contents :
Career Builder is the proud sponsor of this ebook…….Page 0
Contents……Page 10
The Participants……Page 12
Prelude……Page 20
1. Experiment and Paradox in Quantum Physics……Page 28
2. Philosophical Reflections on Quantum Realities……Page 48
3. Space, Time, and the Quantum……Page 67
4. Buddhist Views on Space and Time……Page 102
5. Quantum Logic Meets Buddhist Logic……Page 118
6. Participation and Personal Knowledge……Page 138
7. The Relation between Scientific Knowledge and Human Experience……Page 143
8. Investigating the World, Pondering the Mind……Page 163
9. New Images of the Universe……Page 180
10. Origins of the Universe and Buddhist Causality……Page 193
11. Science in Search of a Worldview……Page 213
12. Knowing and Suffering……Page 231
Notes……Page 240
About the Mind and Life Institute……Page 244
B……Page 252
C……Page 253
D……Page 255
F……Page 256
K……Page 257
M……Page 258
P……Page 259
R……Page 260
S……Page 261
V……Page 262
Z……Page 263