03928nam a22005775i 4500 978-3-031-65259-2 DE-He213 20251030113119.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241001s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031652592 978-3-031-65259-2 10.1007/978-3-031-65259-2 doi QC5.56-6.4 PDA bicssc PH bicssc SCI075000 bisacsh PDA thema PH thema Hassani, Sadri. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 85391 Quanta in Distress [electronic resource] : How New Age Gurus Kidnapped Quantum Physics / by Sadri Hassani. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XVII, 213 p. 20 illus., 9 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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. 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. Physics Philosophy. 70515 Quantum physics. 66608 Alternative medicine. 70733 Religion and science. 71876 Spiritualism. 85392 Philosophy of Physics. 70518 Quantum Physics. 66608 Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 70736 Religion and Sciences. 71877 Spiritualism. 85392 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031652585 Printed edition: 9783031652608 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65259-2 ZDB-2-PHA ZDB-2-SXP 63899 63899