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Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists Perennial Library ed. Edition, Kindle Edition

by Fred A. Wolf (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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World renowned physicist Fred Alan Wolf explains the scientific concepts of quantum mechanics in accessible language for nonscientists.

Winner of the National Book Award

Taking the Quantum Leap entertainingly traces the history of physics from the observations of the early Greeks through the discoveries of Galileo and Newton to the dazzling theories of such scientists as Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Bohm. This humanized view of science opens up the mind-stretching visions of how quantum mechanics, God, human thought, and will are related, and provides profound implications for our understanding of the nature of reality and our relationship to the cosmos.

“The prose, indeed, is exhilarating, and exhibits a passion to explain—humorously . . . Wolf provides commendable explanations of visions and revisions of atomic models; he is fin, in particular, on the Uncertainty Principle . . . Enjoy the book for its bravura.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Entertainingly traces the history of physics from the observations of the early Greeks through the discoveries of Galileo and Newton to the dazzling theories of such scientists as Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Bohm. This humanized view of science opens up the mind-stretching visions of how quantum mechanics, God, human thought, and will are related, and provides profound implications for our understanding of the nature of reality and our relationship to the cosmos.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003V1WW2E
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins e-books; Perennial Library ed. edition (October 19, 2010)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 19, 2010
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 11187 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 306 pages

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Fred Alan Wolf is a world-renowned physicist, writer, and lecturer who also conducts research on the relationship of quantum physics to consciousness. He is the author of 13 books, 3 audio CD courses and received the National Book Award for "Taking the Quantum Leap". He is a member of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collegium of Scholars and was Professor of physics at San Diego State University for twelve years. Dr. Wolf has appeared in many nationally released films including "What the Bleep Do We Know?" and "The Secret." His latest book is "Time-Loops and Space-Twists: How God Created the Universe."

He has been interviewed on several radio and television programs including New Dimensions Radio, Western Public Radio, National Public Radio, and many others. He was the visiting scholar/scientist-in-residence in the Pacific Northwest sponsored by The Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy during the spring season, 1994. He has spoken numerous times before The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, The Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, and several other prominent organizations and been interviewed on a number of television shows between the years 1995 to the present including: The Discovery Channel's The Know Zone, Sightings, The Thinking Allowed Television Series, The Malone show, The Evidence for Heaven. Star Trek IV, Special Collector's edition, The Fabric of Time, The Case for Christ's Resurrection, Down the Rabbit Hole, and the PBS series Closer to Truth.

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Edward Nagel

Where We Are In The Quantum World

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2013

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This book gives the world a view of how quantum mechanics, if recognized,and utilized in our every day life, we can rid our world of the Newtonian/Cartesian paradigm where our subject/ object dead language as Beckett said in Waiting For Godet, is a blockage to acheiving our highest goals in life. We must see that the world is not made up of solid things, but that we can intersect at the subatomic level of superposition, and make up our world, in a kind of quantum solipsism. Werner Heisenberg the inventor of the Uncertainty Principle of quantum mechanics, said as in the DVD What The Bleeb Do We Know?, the film that dramatizes Wolf's
book"Atoms are not things. They are only tendencies" That is the world does not exist until we look at it. This book is a must read for all artists and great thinking multisensory personalities, if you want to live the highest life that you were meant to have, be an Avatar like Christ or Bhudda ,I have written a play that has been read in NYC which dramatizes this concept,The Leftover Brother, soon to be done as a novel for Amazon.com by Create Space EAN

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Jean

Accessible for lay person, fun read

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2021

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Best book I’ve read on Quantum Mechanics. Accessible for a lay person but still full of information and challenging concepts. It’s written with so much passion you can’t help but stay interested.

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Thorne Hamstring

Great For Quantum Novices--Dull For Those Familiar With The Subject

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2014

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I read a lot of material in this topic area and was looking forward to finding some new and chewy content here. The Look Inside and sample was sufficiently interesting for me to purchase the book. I'm about half way through the thing now and, while there have been a couple of times I've thought, 'Oh, that's interesting,' the book is mostly boring and simply filled with the same stuff I've read in other more well written books.

In fairness, this is a great book for someone just beginning their reading and exploration of this fascinating area of science. For anyone familiar and regularly reading in this area, it's too basic.

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Nancy B.

this is a good book on instructing me in the way Jesus used ...

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2014

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this is a good book on instructing me in the way Jesus used His faith for speaking things that be not as thought they were

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brooklyn patterson

More than I expected.

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2020

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Very insightful. Taking the Quantum leap I didn't quite know what to expect but when it was over I was glad I did. I'm a believer.

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Easy Writer

Great Book

Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2019

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Great book on quantum physics for the non scientist like it says. Leans a little more on the philosophical side.

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Patrick Steadman

Build a book was very short I enjoyed it

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2024

Running a business is not an easy task, and I can say this from my 13-year experience as a small business owner. Though the book was a little short, it did leave an impact on me, and I wish there was more to read. "Your writing has left a lasting impression on me, and I wish there was more for me to read."

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