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100 1  Hassani, Sadri, |eauthor.
245 10 Quanta in Distress : |bHow New Age Gurus Kidnapped Quantum Physics / |cSadri Hassani.
250    First edition.
264  1 Cham, Switzerland : |bSpringer Nature Switzerland AG, |c[2024]
264  4  |c©2024
300    1 online resource (222 pages)
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520    This book deconstructs and debunks the lucrative and widespread marriage of quantum physics with pop-spirituality while tracing this pernicious strain of pseudoscience to its source: the founders of quantum mechanics themselves. The association of mystical ideas with modern physics in the self-improvement industry is not new. The “spookiness” of quantum properties like uncertainty and entanglement has proven fertile ground for new-age mystics and alternative medicine advocates who saw a way to put a scientific veneer on their claims. In the early days, the founders of quantum physics accused it of implying an observer-created reality. Later, Taoists and Wu Li dancers were quantized. Then ancient Indian medicine, Ayurveda, morphed into “quantum healing.” Little wonder The Oprah Winfrey Show told its viewers: think about losing weight, making more money, and falling in love, and you’ll become thin, wealthy, and happily married … all based on quantum physics. Criticism of the pseudoscientific misappropriation of quantum physics has been widespread but inadequate; thus far, the scientific community has failed to account for its own role in the fusion of pop-spirituality and quantum physics. As well as thoroughly exploring and debunking quantum mysticism, this book traces the development of quantum mysticism and pulls no punches in exposing the unwitting role of quantum theory’s founders in propagating quantum mysticism.
505 0  Chapter 1: Of gods, goddesses, and philosophers -- Chapter 2: Sins of the fathers -- Chapter 3: Certainty of the probable -- Chapter 4: Pathway to quantum mysticism -- Chapter 5: Quantum consciousness crosses the Atlantic -- Chapter 6: Eastern plague of the sixties -- Chapter 7: Inventing modern physics -- Chapter 8: The Standard Model -- Chapter 9: Are you the universe -- Chapter 10: Messenger is not the message -- Chapter 11: What is to be done.
588    Description based on print version record.
504    Includes bibliographical references and index.
650  0 New Age movement.
650  0 Quantum theory |xReligious aspects.
650  0 Religion and science.
776     |z3-031-65258-4
906    BOOK