Erwin Schrödinger, 1887-1961
Austrian theoretical physicist who contributed to the wave theory of matter and to other fundamentals of quantum mechanics. He shared the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics with the British physicist P.A.M. Dirac.
Of all of the physicists of his generation, Schrödinger stands out because of his extraordinary intellectual versatility. He was at home in the philosophy and literature of all of the Western languages, and his popular scientific writing in English, which he had learned as a child, is among the best of its kind. His study of ancient Greek science and philosophy, summarized in his Nature and the Greeks (1954), gave him both an admiration for the Greek invention of the scientific view of the world and a skepticism toward the relevance of science as a unique tool with which to unravel the ultimate mysteries of human existence.
Schrödinger's own metaphysical outlook, as expressed in his last book, Meine Weltansicht (1961; My View of the World), closely paralleled, and reflected his life-long interest in, the Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism, which influenced his speculations at the close of What is Life? about the possibility that individual consciousness is only a manifestation of a unitary consciousness pervading the universe.
Only theory. No kitties were harmed in the posing of this famous quantum conundrum.
Amit Goswami, 1936 -
Amit has been a professor of physics at the University of Oregon for thirty four years. He is the author of six books including the successful textbook, Quantum Mechanics. Amit is a pioneer of science within consciousness science based on the primacy of consciousness which is developed in his books The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World and Science and Spirituality. He has also authored Quantum Creativity and A Quantum Physicist's Guide to Enlightenment, The Visionary Window and Physics of the Soul, and the upcoming Integral Medicine. Amit gives workshops in the United States, Brazil, Sweden and India on the subjects of quantum creativity, quantum healing, physics of the soul and science and spirituality.
Fritjof Capra, 1939 -
Born in Vienna, Austria, Capra earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966. He has done research on particle physics and systems theory, and has written popular books on the implications of science, notably The Tao of Physics, subtitled An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism. The Tao of Physics makes an assertion that physics and metaphysics are both inexorably leading to the same knowledge. His works all share a similar subtext: that "there are hidden connections between everything". Capra is both a Buddhist and a Catholic Christian.
- excerpted from various sources, including Wikipedia and Britannica, 2006
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