Isbn: 9798290120867 - zen and quantum physics: surprising correlations between science and eastern philosophy (quantum physics and metaphysics. texts by bruno del medico in english. (ing)) (11 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The encounter between Zen philosophy and quantum physics does not just represent a curious convergence of East and West, spirituality and science. Instead, it is an opportunity for a profound dialogue between two worldviews that, although born in radically different contexts, have come to question, each in its own way, the same fundamental questions about reality, perception, and consciousness.The Zen monk walks in the gardens of Kyoto. The physicist wanders, restless, through the laboratories of Geneva. Both seek answers, both embrace mystery. Master Eihei Dogen, in the 13th century, writes in his "Shobogenzo" that "the Way is fundamentally perfect and penetrates the whole. But who recognizes it?" A few centuries later, Niels Bohr, among the originators of quantum physics, says, "Whoever is not surprised by quantum theory has not really understood it." An identical urgency surfaces in these two sentences: reality is never what it seems at first glance. Appearance betrays, truth hides under the veil of custom.Zen philosophy cultivates the art of paradox. Its koan break ordinary logic and open glimpses of silence. Quantum physics speaks the language of experiments that contradict common sense. In 1927, in Solvay, Einstein challenges Bohr: "God does not play dice with the universe." But reality responds with the unpredictability of particles, with the mystery of the observer changing the observed world. Laboratories become temples, meditation resembles a journey into the invisible.There is a thin thread that binds, across centuries and cultures, the Zen monastery and the science laboratory. Both celebrate uncertainty. Both question dogma. Zen invites the dropping of words and direct experience. Quantum physics unmasks the rigidity of categories and shows that the atom, time, even space, are not absolute, but appear mutable and relational.Heisenberg, father of the uncertainty principle, found consolation in Eastern readings. Schroedinger read the Indian Upanishads and meditated on the concept of unity. Physicist Fritjof Capra, traveling in the 1970s between India and America, wrote "The Tao of Physics," and told of a cosmic dance embracing particles and meditators, scientists and monks.Today the dialogue is not limited to books. Zen temples in the West host retreating scientists. Frontier laboratories invite philosophers and meditators. At CERN in Geneva, questions about the origin of the universe are intertwined with dilemmas reminiscent of Zen meditation: who observes, who is observed?This is the story of a silent but powerful dialogue. It is the story of men and women who dared to think the invisible, question the absolute and welcome uncertainty. Zen philosophy and quantum physics, each in its own way, are two keys to open the same door. Behind that threshold, emptiness is not absence, but infinite potentiality. Reality is not one, but multiple. The amazement becomes method, and simplicity is revealed as the most difficult of achievements. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The encounter between Zen philosophy and quantum physics does not just represent a curious convergence of East and West, spirituality and science. Instead, it is an opportunity for a profound dialogue between two worldviews that, although born in radically different contexts, have come to question, each in its own way, the same fundamental questions about reality, perception, and consciousness.The Zen monk walks in the gardens of Kyoto. The physicist wanders, restless, through the laboratories of Geneva. Both seek answers, both embrace mystery. Master Eihei Dogen, in the 13th century, writes in his "Shobogenzo" that "the Way is fundamentally perfect and penetrates the whole. But who recognizes it?" A few centuries later, Niels Bohr, among the originators of quantum physics, says, "Whoever is not surprised by quantum theory has not really understood it." An identical urgency surfaces in these two sentences: reality is never what it seems at first glance. Appearance betrays, truth hides under the veil of custom.Zen philosophy cultivates the art of paradox. Its koan break ordinary logic and open glimpses of silence. Quantum physics speaks the language of experiments that contradict common sense. In 1927, in Solvay, Einstein challenges Bohr: "God does not play dice with the universe." But reality responds with the unpredictability of particles, with the mystery of the observer changing the observed world. Laboratories become temples, meditation resembles a journey into the invisible.There is a thin thread that binds, across centuries and cultures, the Zen monastery and the science laboratory. Both celebrate uncertainty. Both question dogma. Zen invites the dropping of words and direct experience. Quantum physics unmasks the rigidity of categories and shows that the atom, time, even space, are not absolute, but appear mutable and relational.Heisenberg, father of the uncertainty principle, found consolation in Eastern readings. Schroedinger read the Indian Upanishads and meditated on the concept of unity. Physicist Fritjof Capra, traveling in the 1970s between India and America, wrote "The Tao of Physics," and told of a cosmic dance embracing particles and meditators, scientists and monks.Today the dialogue is not limited to books. Zen temples in the West host retreating scientists. Frontier laboratories invite philosophers and meditators. At CERN in Geneva, questions about the origin of the universe are intertwined with dilemmas reminiscent of Zen meditation: who observes, who is observed?This is the story of a silent but powerful dialogue. It is the story of men and women who dared to think the invisible, question the absolute and welcome uncertainty. Zen philosophy and quantum physics, each in its own way, are two keys to open the same door. Behind that threshold, emptiness is not absence, but infinite potentiality. Reality is not one, but multiple. The amazement becomes method, and simplicity is revealed as the most difficult of achievements. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…