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15 Apr 2010, 6:00 pm

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15 Apr 2010, 7:24 pm

It was a revelation to me to realize that the Buddhist concept of nothingness did not mean a void, but a realm of potentiality. Have you read The Quantum and the Lotus? It's a conversation on the nature of reality between a Buddhist (the Dalai Lama's French translator) and an astrophysicist.



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15 Apr 2010, 8:29 pm

Aimless wrote:
It was a revelation to me to realize that the Buddhist concept of nothingness did not mean a void, but a realm of potentiality. Have you read The Quantum and the Lotus? It's a conversation on the nature of reality between a Buddhist (the Dalai Lama's French translator) and an astrophysicist.


I have not read it, but it sounds great. I'll look for it. Thanks. :) One of my favorite commentators on reality is David Icke. Check out his book Infinite Love Is The Only Truth, Everything Else Is An Illusion.


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15 Apr 2010, 10:57 pm

Fredrick Allan Wolfe is a feather merchant and a peddler of bogosity. He and Jeremy Rifkin write books fit for burning. Total nonsense!

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16 Apr 2010, 5:04 am

ruveyn wrote:
Fredrick Allan Wolfe is a feather merchant and a peddler of bogosity. He and Jeremy Rifkin write books fit for burning. Total nonsense!

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Unnecessary commentary. Everyone's got an opinion. Positive ones are more welcome. I don't enjoy arguing.


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16 Apr 2010, 12:33 pm

idiocratik wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Fredrick Allan Wolfe is a feather merchant and a peddler of bogosity. He and Jeremy Rifkin write books fit for burning. Total nonsense!

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Unnecessary commentary. Everyone's got an opinion. Positive ones are more welcome. I don't enjoy arguing.


By all means, don't argue. I posted my thing to advise people to save their money and not buy any of Wolfe's nonsense. Quantum Physics is hard enough to learn properly. Popular books that elide quantum physics with Eastern woo woo give quantum physics a bad name and fails to teach it properly.

Anyone who really, really wants to learn quantum physics should acquire the necessary mathematical skill and read one of several excellent textbooks on the subject. Popularizations are, by and large, worthless.

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