Physics and Metaphysics

Book:

The Unconscious Quantum:

Metaphysics in Modern Physics and Cosmology (1995)

Available from Amazon.com.

Click here to read jacket blurb,
Go here to read a review by Herbert Gintis, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts.

And, for a review from Times Literary Supplement, London 27 Dec. 1996, click here.
Nonlocality With Time Reversibility. Excerpts from the book that show how a particle can follow a well-defined path in spacetime and still be two places at once. Also included is a local explanation of the Aspect experimental results. Note that this is discussed in greater detail in my later book Timeless Reality.

Select chapters:

Preface
1. Cosmic Mind
7. Restoring Reality
10. Shining Through?
Bibliography

Quantum Time Travel. Reality Check column in Skeptical Briefs Vol. 10, No. 2, June 2000, showing why the Time Travel Casual Paradox ("Grandfater's Paradox") does not apply for pure quantum states, thus allowing time to be reversible at the quantum level.

If you want to read a Short Primer on Quantum Mechanics go here.

Papers, Talks and Preprints:

The Mystical World of Quantum Mechanics Essay that appeared in The Times Higher Educaton Supplement January 5, 2001, p. 20. OK to distribute, with credit.
"Quantum Quackery." This article appeared in Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 21. No. 1, January/February 1997, p. 37. It was based on an invited talk at the World Skeptics Congress in Buffalo in June, 1996. Link to article on CSICOP web site

A video of talk on "Quantum Quackery" given at Cal Tech in June, 1996 is available from The Skeptics Society.

"Quantum Metaphysics." Talk given at the Westminster College, Oxford Conference on the Modern Spiritualities, March 1995. Appearing in "Modern Spiritualities," Prometheus Books1996. Also published in The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine 1(1), 26-30, 1997.

"Mystical Physics." Paper published in Free Inquiry 16(3)1996. PDF.

"Myth of Quantum Consciousness." Paper published in The Humanist, Vol. 53(3), May/June 1993. pp. 13-15. PDF file of paper.

Book Reviews by V. Stenger:

"The Dreams that Stuff is Made Of." Review of Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg. Published in Free Inquiry 13(3) Summer 1994, p. 59. Text file of review.
Review of Cranks, Quarks and the Cosmos by Jeremy Bernstein. Published in Physics Today, August 1993. Text file of review.

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