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Summary: One of the most fascinating books I have ever read.
Review: This is the book I give people for Christmas, tell strangers in bus stations about, etc. It really is a life-changing book, as gushy as that sounds. It is for the intelligent layman, uses little or no math, but goes very deep into an understanding of quantum physics, and links it in the most intelligent and interesting way with eastern philosophy. If you are interested in the nature of reality, time, space, thought, matter, light, intelligence, reality, etc, this is the book for you!
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Summary: amazing, informative, entertaining and mind-boggling
Review: very fascinating and interesting book that explains some of the more strange and amazing ideas and observations that have arrived with the advent of this "new physics"... excellently written (the point of it was to write about all this left brain stuff from the right brain perspective). highly highly recommended.
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Summary: Truly fascinating
Review: This book gives you insights of things and possibilities you were never aware of before. It's true science-fiction. I think I'm more intelligent for having read it.
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Summary: FOLLOW YOUR HEART
Review: I wrote The Dancing Wu Li Masters for others.I decided that I wanted to live my life the way that this book was being written - spontaneously, intelligently, and joyfully. It has been a long journey since that time, but I have learned how to do that. The day before The Dancing Wu Li Masters was published, the New York Times printed a rave review of it -- all praise and no criticism. Every major book club in the United States featured it. It won also won The American Book Award for Science. Today it is published in sixteen languages. I suspect that it will always be popular. It is one of the most enjoyable introductions to quantum physics, and quantum physics is the pinnacle achievement of western science. The Dancing Wu Li Masters brought me to the new frontiers of science as physicists saw them then, and to the new frontiers of science as multisensory humans are beginning to see them now. I am still exploring them. If you are interested exploring them, too, please visit zukav.com. It is dedicated to that adventure. Love, Gary END
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Summary: A must read for those seeking an escape from the ordinary...
Review: It'll mesmerize you with the simple truths we ignore. It opened my eyes and let me see past the physics, the screwy and often-times mind boggling so-called "laws of nature." The thoughts of Zukav will bring understanding as well as appreciation for our existence!!
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Summary: This is a journey
Review: Gary Zukav has written an outstanding book. Or maybe you could say that it is a journey. That is what I felt when reading it. As you turn the pages you feel your view of the world change. The more you read the more you want to read. The only reason for not giving this book 10 p is that Zukav explains the theories made by physicists BUT he does not explain the reasons and the ideas behind them. On the other hand there is a well detailed note table for the interested reader. Overall I would like to recommend this book to all the ones who are interested in learning the world itself.
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Summary: Defines the relationship between macro and micro reality.
Review: An outstanding effort in explaining the way in which the relatively recently discovered quantum world defines perceptual reality. Of note is the way in which the author demonstrates how two seemingly opposite philosophical structures (Eastern and Western) actually describe the same thing.
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Summary: Check out a FAQ on 'Dancing WuLi Masters'
Review: great book, good human story of a communal type of brainstorming gathering like what spawned the quantum theory itself back in the 20's and 30's. The metaphor of the many meanings of 'WuLi' is really neat. The physics may be a little dated, but still serves as a good intro. fyi, there is a small 'FAQ' (list of 'frequently asked questions') relating to Tao of Physics and 'Dancing Wu Li Masters', collected from about 2 years worth of debate/discussion on the Usenet group sci.physics.
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Summary: A tear in the fabric of relativity
Review: An observation by Tom Dennen.
Dancing Wu Li Masters mentions an observation that binary particles have a reciprocal spin.
This spin observation sets up a very real contradiction to popular views of Relativity.
The best conspiracy - if indeed it is - in my opinion is the 'universal' conspiracy that nothing can exceed the speed of light.
Now, submolecular physics - in Wu Li - observes a certain property in the behavior of binary particles.
The curious thing is that each binary particle has a spin peculiar to it but matching the spin of the other particle in the opposite direction.
Now, if you separate binary particles, they retain their spin.
And no matter how far apart you separate those two particles, if you alter the spin of one of them, the other's spin alters in a direct proportion to the alteration in the first's spin at exactly the same time - instantaneously!
In other words, something (which is faster than the speed of light) causes a change over unlimited, or infinite, distances.
Now what does that do to the Lorentz contraction theories?
Let's keep one of our binary particles here and put the other one on a spaceship.
We let the spaceship get far enough away to achieve speeds which apply to Relativity and alter the spin on our half of the binary particle.
The spin on the particle in space will alter at the same time and, given that we can control both the duration and the speed of the alteration, we can communicate in binary code.
So, with one computer here using one half of a binary particle and another computer out in relative space moving away from us with a huge relative doppler effect, we still have instantaneous communication.
But, according to Lorentz, the people on board the ship are not aging relative to us while, relative to them, we are aging very fast indeed.
So how would our messages read? Would we get a year's summation of their journey all at once and they get one letter an hour?
Is there a tear in the fabric of Relativity or are we once again reduced to semantics and our friend Aquinas' Uncaused Cause?
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Summary: A quick, and simple overview of quantum physics
Review: This 2 cassette abridged edition of this now classic work is a outstanding way to bridge the gap that almost every nonphysicist has with the truth that was initially exposed by scientists almost 100 years ago - quantum physics. Zukav is a genius in his own right. Where did he go after this. Why hasn't he written books explaining government and politics; sex, love, and marriage; desktop computers; and the other things that have baffled mankind for the last year or two? He certainly has the nack for being able to explain the previouly thought unexplainable. Not being a scientist has not hindered Gary in anyway, in fact it may have enhanced his ability to explain these truths to the "common man". The fact that most people on earth have no idea of what governs the forces that govern their lives is sad. The fact that even the 1% of the world's population that has graduated from college has little understanding of these forces, even after almost 100 years since their discovery, is a damning expose of our system of education. But if there ever was an effort to present this material to the masses then this would be the book that should be used. And a great way to expose the most people to the joys of discovery this book has to offer is through this abridged cassette set
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