Cleaning homes was how I got through college. I only knew then that he was a physicist, not realizing that there was such a thing as quantum physics, which I was not introduced to until 2000.įritjof was a really interesting person, that is, what I knew about him, which wasn’t much since I was only his housekeeper. I have had this book in my possession off and on over the years, ever since I worked for the author, Fritjof Capra, when I lived in Berkeley in the late 70s. Phil Moriarty on the Sixty Symbols Channel on YouTube. Here's a good discussion of the Woo effect and why it should be avoided, provided by British Physicist Dr. It is NOT true, however, that you can scale that quantum weirdness up to the macro level where human beings, planets, galaxies and universes operate, and draw realistic inferences on the parallels between the macro world and Eastern mysticism. It's very true that weird, seemingly mystical things do go on at the tiny scale of the atom where quantum physics operates.

Their pronouncements on quantum mechanics are no more valid than mine would be if I suddenly set out to perform delicate surgery. Robert Lanza or a New Age/Alternative Medicine guru like Depak Chopra is not a particle physicist. I wish I had not written the review above, but I'll let it stand as mute warning to be careful of lay interpretations of science. That's what I said before reading extensively in physics and cosmology and before watching so many charlatans and the honest but misguided people duped by them try to sell Woo-Woo in place of solid science. 'Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science, but man needs both.' The author's own words in the epilogue sum it up nicely. Rather, it is a fascinating mental adventure showing the ways the two schools of thought often developed in parallel and came to similar conclusions from very different beginning points.

Nor is this book a deep exploration of Taoism or other Eastern Religious Philosophy. Don't look to Capra for a highly disciplined discourse on particle physics or the nature of cosmology.

The new physics by fritjof capra