Quantum physics & consciousness-Hard Bound (POD Edition)

1) Authors

Thoughts from Founding Fathers of Quantum Physics, they being

• Erwin Schrodinger
• Niels Bohr
• Wener Heisenberg
• Max Planck
• Wolfgang Pauli
• Louis de Broglie

Mainstream authors are

a) Eugene P. Wigner, Nobel laureate in Physics

b) Amit Goswami, Center for Quantum Activism, Eugene, USA

c) Anthony J. Leggett, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Professor pf Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

d) Antonie Suarez, Center for Quantum Philosophy, Ackermannstrasse, Zurich, Switzerland

e) A. K. Mukhopadhyay, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

f) Dr. B. N. Gangadhar, Director & Professor of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India

g) Dr. U. M. Mehta, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India

h) Robert G. Jahn and Brenda J. Dunne, Princeton Engineering Anaomalies Reasearch (PEAR) Laboratory School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University

i) Rajat Kumar Pradhan, Department of Physcis, Bhadrak Autonomous College, India

j) Ian J. Thompson, Center for Seenborgian Studies, Berkeley, USA

k) Partha Ghose, The National Academy of Sciences, India

l) Ashish Dalela, Communication Engineer, Bangalore, India

m) Goutam Paul, Cryptology and Security Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

n) Madhu Babu Prakhya, Senior Manager, IGT, San Francisco, USA

o) B. D. Mundhra, Chairman Emeritus, Simplex Infrastructures Ltd.

p) Konstatntin Korotkov, National university of Informational Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Saint Petersburg, Russia

q) Alfred Driessen, Emeritus Professor, University of Twente,Netherlands

r) Girish M, Scientist, Defence Avionics Research Establishment, DRDO, Bangalore, India

s) Nikhil Samant, Senior Analyst, Novartis, Hyderabad, India

t) Gerald L. Schroeder, Physicist, Aish HaTorah College of Jewish Studies, Israel

u) Bernard Haisch, (formerly) University of California, Berkeley, USA

v) Bijoy H. Boruah, Department of Humaities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi, India

w) K. Vasudeva Rao, President, Bhaktivedanta Institute, Kolkata, India

2) Brief Description about the book

The present volume is being brought out as a 80th Birth Anniversary commemorative volume in honor of Dr. T.D. Singh, Founder-Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute.

Starting with the thoughts of the Founding Fathers of Quantum Physics in their own words in the first section, where one will find unheard-before conclusions drawn by these renowned thinkers of all times from the mysteries of quantum physics, the book in its second section takes us further into conclusions drawn by some of the  contemporary renowned scholars of our times, such as Wigner’s emphatic article on consciousness in modern physics, various paradigm shifts coming in science by Amit Goswami, analyzing  state-of-art in various experiments attempted for quantum mechanics in recent times by Nobel Laureate in Physics A J Leggett and the central role of observer and free will in physics by Zurich in-depth physicist Antonie Suarez.

The third section focuses on possible connections between quantum physics and life; between physics and psychology, as Pauli and Wigner desired long ago, whereas section four traverses one more step and enters possible connections of quantum physics with spiritual wisdom and its theistic interpretations.

4) Topics Covered

Objectivity, Subjectivity, Causality and Complementarity, Free Will, Consciousness, Quantum Physics, Locality, Induction, EPR-Bell Experiments, Michelson-Morley Experiment, Neuroscience, Quantum Entanglement, Quantum Biology, Vedanta