Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World Beyond the SensesThis book critically examines theories of a transcendent reality in terms of all that is currently known about matter at its most fundamental level. Victor J. Stenger gives a provocative, often amusing history of psychic research and occult beliefs, offering a convincing rebuttal to those who attempt to link physics to mystical truths. Stenger examines a number of well-known paranormal claims and shows how they can be explained without resorting to supernatural or psychic hypotheses. Discussing quantum theory and relativity, he demonstrates that these concepts actually invalidate paranormal claims and that there is no scientific basis for a universe other than one composed of observable matter. |
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... electromagnetic theory called " gauge invariance . " In the 1970s , Sheldon Glashow , Steven Weinberg , and Abdus Salam recognized that the gauge principle provided a mechanism by which electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force can be ...
... electromagnetic theory called " gauge invariance . " In the 1970s , Sheldon Glashow , Steven Weinberg , and Abdus Salam recognized that the gauge principle provided a mechanism by which electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force can be ...
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... electromagnetic and weak forces are equivalent requires an immense effort of imagination , since they appear vastly different on the scale of everyday phenomena . Even the highly creative thinker Richard Feynman found the proposal hard ...
... electromagnetic and weak forces are equivalent requires an immense effort of imagination , since they appear vastly different on the scale of everyday phenomena . Even the highly creative thinker Richard Feynman found the proposal hard ...
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... electromagnetic wave . Other forms of electromagnetic waves were also inferred , and in 1888 this prediction was confirmed when Heinrich Hertz produced and detected radio waves in the laboratory . Although Maxwell himself had cautioned ...
... electromagnetic wave . Other forms of electromagnetic waves were also inferred , and in 1888 this prediction was confirmed when Heinrich Hertz produced and detected radio waves in the laboratory . Although Maxwell himself had cautioned ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Acknowledgments | 15 |
Supernova Shelton Supermind and the Supernatural | 17 |
Copyright | |
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