COMMENT:An excellent critique of claims that modern physics supports mystical and paranormal ideas. Most of the book is devoted to examining the nature of quantum physics, showing this counterintuitive theory is misinterpreted to require universal holistic connections, or to place consciousness at the center of physics. Stenger also skewers anthropic cosmology, the Platonism that occasionally surfaces in mathematical physics, and newagey chaos-talk, but the meat of the book is in the chapters about quantum physics. The material is mostly accessible to well-informed non-physicists. An indispensable resource for skeptics confronting claims that modern physics supports an occult view of the world.
DATE:19990629
KEYWORDS:paraphysics psi science
MISC:322p., illustrated
PUBLISHER:Prometheus
SUBMITADDR:bibliographer@csicop.org
SUBMITNAME:Taner Edis
TITLE:The Unconscious Quantum: Metaphysics in Modern Physics and Cosmology
