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Synchronicity : The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
Alfred Street (University of Auckland Store)
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Synchronicity : The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
Hardback Edition: 1
For millennia, scientists have puzzled over a simple question: Does the universe have a speed limit? If not, some effects could happen at the same instant as the actions that caused them -- and some effects, ludicrously, might even happen before their causes.
By one hundred years ago, it seemed clear that the speed of light was the fastest possible speed. Causality was safe. And then quantum mechanics happened, introducing spooky connections that seemed to circumvent the law of cause and effect.
Inspired by the new physics, psychologist Carl Jung and physicist Wolfgang Pauli explored a concept called synchronicity, a weird phenomenon they thought could link events without causes. Synchronicity tells that sprawling tale of insight and creativity, and asks where these ideas -- some plain crazy, and others crazy powerful -- are taking the human story next.
Pages : 304
Publisher : Basic Books
Publication date : 2020-09-24
Subjects: Non-fiction, Lifestyle, Sport And Leisure, Science And Technology, Popular Science, Physics, History Of Science, Quantum Physics (quantum Mechanics & Quantum Field Theory), Relativity Physics