A few grains of ice on a passenger jet's wing bloom into a turbulent that can bring the giant plan down. Far out at sea, turbulence can synchronize into a single wave that travels thousands of miles without changing shape.

Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness

Briggs, John

Peat, F.David

Harper&Row

If you have ever felt your life was out of control and headed toward chaos,science has an important message: Life is chaos, and that's a very exciting thing!
In this eye-opening book, John Briggs and F. David Peat reveal sevenenlightening lessons for embracing the chaos of daily life.
Be Creative: engage with chaos to find imaginative new solutions and live more dynamically
Use Butterfly Power: let chaos grow local efforts into global results
Go With the Flow: use chaos to work collectively with others
Explore What's Between: discover life's rich subtleties and avoid the traps of stereotypes
See the Art of the World: appreciate the beauty of life's chaos
Live Within Time: utilize time's hidden depths
Rejoin the Whole: realize our fractal connectedness to each other and the world
Life is impossible to control--instead of fighting this truth, Seven Life Lessons of Chaos shows you how to accept, celebrate, and use it to live life to its fullest.

Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change

Reference

Harper-perennial

Infinite Potential is the first biography of David Bohmbrilliant physicist, explorer of consciousness, student of Oppenheimer, friend to Einstein, and enemy of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Although he battled bouts of crippling depression, Bohm proved to be one of the twentieth century's most original thinkers, influencing the fields of physics, philosophy, psychology, language, and education. In this compelling narrative, David Peat explains Bohm's life and landmark scientific work, including his famous ”hidden variables” causal interpretation of quantum mechanics, which created a storm of controversy, yet may well be the only theory that describes the true nature of reality.

Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Basic Books

Recounts the life of the physicist, psychologist, and philosopher David Bohm, including his friendship with J. Robert Oppenheimer and his protest against Senator Joseph McCarthy, and explains his landmark scientific discoveries and his work with Eastern philosophy.

Infinite Potential: The Life And Times Of David Bohm (Helix Books)

Science & Math

Physics

From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century

Early theorists believed that in science lay the promise of certainty. Built on a foundation of fact and constructed with objective and trustworthy tools, science produced knowledge. But science has also shown us that this knowledge will always be fundamentally incomplete and that a true understanding of the world is ultimately beyond our grasp. In this thoughtful and compelling book, physicist F. David Peat examines the basic philosophic difference between the certainty that characterized the thinking of humankind through the nineteenth century and contrasts it with the startling fall of certainty in the twentieth. The nineteenth century was marked by a boundless optimism and confidence in the power of progress and technology. Science and philosophy were on firm ground. Newtonian physics showed that the universe was a gigantic clockwork mechanism that functioned according to rigid lawsâ€"that its course could be predicted with total confidence far into the future. Indeed, in 1900, the President of the Royal Society in Britain went so far as to proclaim that everything of importance had already been discovered by science. But it was not long before the seeds of a scientific revolution began to take root. Quantum Theory and the General Theory of Relativity exploded the clockwork universe, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that our knowledge was, at best, incompleteâ€"and would probably remain that way forever. There were places in the universe, such as black holes, from which no information at all could ever be obtained. Chaos Theory also demonstrated our inherent limits to knowing, predicting, and controlling the world around us and showed the way that chaos can often be found at the heart of natural and social systems. Although we may not always recognize it, this new world view has had a profound effect not only on science, but on art, literature, philosophy, and societal relations. The twenty-first century now begins with a humble acceptance of uncertainty. From Certainty to Uncertainty traces the rise and fall of the deterministic universe and shows the evolving influences that such disparate disciplines now have on one another. Drawing on the lessons we can learn from history, Peat also speculates on how we will manage our lives into the future. Table of Contents <ul>
<li>Front Matter</li>
<li>1 Quantum Uncertainty</li>
<li>2 On Incompleteness</li>
<li>3 From Object to Process</li>
<li>4 Language</li>
<li>5 The End of Representation</li>
<li>6 From Clockwork to Chaos</li>
<li>7 Re-envisioning the Planet</li>
<li>8 Pausing the Cosmos</li>
<li>Postscript</li>
<li>Appendix: GÃ¶del's Theorem</li>
<li>Index</li>
</ul>

Professionals & Academics

Joseph Henry Press

History

290p large paperback with blue and yellow cover, very good

Looking glass universe: The emerging science of wholeness

Cornerstone Library, Incorporated

Superstrings and the Search for the Theory of Everything

Since Einstein, physicists have been pursuing a holy grail - a single theory that would order all the subatomic particles in the universe and unify the forces of nature. Such a theory would answer questions like: How did the universe begin? What is the origin of time? What is matter? What is the ultimate meaning of physical laws?F. David Peat explains the development and meaning of the theory they came up with - the Superstrings Theory - in a thoroughly readable, dramatic manner accessible to lay readers, even those with no knowledge of maths. The theory states that everything in the universe - matter, forces, even space itself - consists of minuscule strings of ten dimensions, six of which are so tightly curled up that only four are visible to us. The consequences of this theory are nothing less than astonishing.

ABACUS +

One of the foremost scientists and thinkers of our time, David Bohm worked alongside Oppenheimer and Einstein. In Science, Order and Creativity he and physicist F. David Peat propose a return to greater creativity and communication in the sciences. They ask for a renewed emphasis on ideas rather than formulae, on the whole rather than fragments, and on meaning rather than mere mechanics. Tracing the history of science from Aristotle to Einstein, from the Pythagorean theorem to quantum mechanics, the authors offer intriguing new insights into how scientific theories come into being, how to eliminate blocks to creativity and how science can lead to a deeper understanding of society, the human condition and the human mind itself. Science, Order and Creativity looks to the future of science with elegance, hope and enthusiasm.

Science, Order and Creativity

Politics & Social Sciences

Böhm, David

Philosophy

Routledge

Science, Order and Creativity second edition

In Science, Order and Creativity, David Bohm and F. David Peat argue that science has lost its way in recent years and needs to go beyond a narrow and fragmented view of nature and embrace a wider holistic view that restores the importance of creativity and communication for all humanity - not just scientists. The result of a close collaboration by one of the 20th century's greatest physicists and thinkers, David Bohm, with leading science writer F. David Peat, provides a rare combination of profound reflection and clear exposition that can be appreciated by anyone concerned with science and its importance in our lives. This new edition includes a new preface and an extended additional chapter by Peat which draws upon further discussions with David Bohm before the latter's death in 1992. A fascinating diagnosis and considered proposal for a cure for science's ills, it is also very accessible entry point to the work of David Bohm. Bohm and Peat contend that science has lost its bearings in the last century in favour of a narrow, abstracted, fragmented approach to nature and reality. Tracing the history of science, Bohm and Peat offer intriguing new insights into how scientific theories come into being, how to eliminate blocks of creativity and how science can lead to a deeper understanding of society, the human condition and the human mind itself.

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Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness

Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change

Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm

Infinite Potential: The Life And Times Of David Bohm (Helix Books)

From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century

From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century

Looking glass universe: The emerging science of wholeness

Superstrings and the Search for the Theory of Everything

Science, Order and Creativity

Science, Order and Creativity second edition