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Looking Glass Universe: The Emerging Science of Wholeness
Looking Glass Universe The Emerging Science of Wholeness Author:John P. Briggs, F. David Peat For hundreds of years scientists have believed that the universe is a subtle machinery of interacting parts-from the smallest subatomic particle to larger collections like human beings and galaxies. — In 'Looking Glass Universe' Drs. John Briggs and F. David Peat recreate the mind-boggling journeys taken by several prominent scientists who are ch... more »allenging this age-old given. In lively, nontechnical language, the authors describe how scientists in physics, chemistry, biology, and neurophysiology have hit upon theories that could revolutionize not only their disciplines, but the way all of us think about reality. These "looking glass" theories propose that we are at this very moment living in an Alice-in-Wonderland universe where each part is in fact the whole, where a scientist conducting an experiment is himself the experiment, and even inanimate objects contain consciousness. Finally, we learn how their theories may fit together into a single new hypothesis which gives scientific meaning to the ancient mystical idea that the universe is One.« less