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Carregando... Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohmde F. David Peat
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Infinite Potential is the first biography of David Bohm--brilliant 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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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His method, being flawed from the start, he could not satisfy his desire for transcendence, nor could he explain his intuition(or tacit belief) of 'unity' and of 'infinity'.
A very telling passage was an eulogy he wrote for one of his friend, an eulogy that was also read at his own funeral. The eulogy is quoted in full on page 322, at the end of the book.
He says in effect that the finite, being contingent, has to be grounded in the infinite. That the quality of the infinite is convey in the word 'spirit' (wind or breath). This energy (which he would have like to discover with the scientific method, as for him there is no other way to knowledge) infuses all living beings, and without it any organism fall apart.
What is truly alive in the living being is this energy of spirit, and this is never born and never dies.
So that the god he put his faith in was an incomprehensible (so far) energy that always was and ever will be.
Trying to pull himself up by his own boot straps, he naturally could never get off the ground. He did not.