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The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
by: Gary Zukav |
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 530.12 EAN: 9780553263824 ISBN: 055326382X Label: Bantam Manufacturer: Bantam Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 339 Publication Date: September 01, 1984 Publisher: Bantam Release Date: September 01, 1984 Studio: Bantam |
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  - Understanding the universe and how universe worksA excellent profile of how the universe and universal consciousness works. You must spread your wings and investigate these things. All this is happening, but you don't know that you don't know! An excellent primer on how "intention" works and how you can get it to work for you. You are not in the universe, the universe is in you. Rating: - A good book, prompt deliveryI read this book in the late 1970's, and after reading it, I felt I was walking on air for days. I just wanted to have it to reread and to share with my children. The book came quickly and was in good shape. Thanks, Gary Rating: - My favorite bookThis book is my favorite, it really woke me up! I read it back in high school and I pick it up every now and then. It isn't a hard formulaic physics book. It tries to give VALUE and MEANING to the physics, which makes it more of a philosophy book in my opinion... I honestly wish Zukav would have made a series with this, to help explain all of the newerfangled particle physics theories, but after getting a basic idea from this book- it wouldn't really matter anyway. Just a great, great book. Rating: - Rats ... I should have read this 30 years ago!"Prove that a uniform body with three mutually perpendicular axes of symmetry cannot rotate stably about the axis of intermediate length" I remember it like it was yesterday. This was a question I faced on a second year classical mechanics exam. I got the question right, by the way. As a matter of fact, I scored a perfect 100% on the entire exam but it bothered me immensely that I should be able to prove something mathematically without having the foggiest inkling as to "why" it should be so at a much more fundamental level. In fact, it troubled me so deeply that after I received my undergraduate degree in Physics, I declined to pursue any further education in the field and went on to a career in business and finance. In "The Dancing Wu Li Masters", Gary Zukav has written a superb explanation as to why my lack of understanding was so normal and why I should have embraced that lack of understanding as opposed to running away from it. In very clear prose, completely devoid of the baffling language of mathematical equations, he has written a story for those of us interested in exploring the mind-expanding (nay, mind-blowing) discoveries of modern advanced physics and cosmology -quantum mechanics; black holes; time travel; entanglement; action at a distance; special and general relativity; the nuclear particle zoo; and much, much more. I reveled in the discovery that even Einstein struggled with the notion that he would never be able to compare his mathematical models with the "real" mechanism. Indeed, he couldn't even imagine the meaning of such a comparison. A magnificent blend of philosophy, eastern mysticism and modern physics, Zukav's "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" is perhaps best summarized by a single sentence from a New York Times Book Review: "Stripped of mathematics, physics becomes pure enchantment ... " While this isn't a book that would likely be accessible to someone without a foot already inside physics' door, it is a breathtaking, joyous revelation to people like myself who have that basic grounding and are looking to increase their knowledge. What the heck, if I had read this in the 1970s instead of waiting until now ... who knows, my entire life and career path might have been changed. Highly recommended. Paul Weiss Rating: - ReceivedI got the book right on time and I am in the middle of moving, so when I unpack I'll be able to read it. I got this from a word-of-mouth, and I am sure I will love it. Thanks. |
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