by Robert Lanza
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Kuffler, Stephen, 25, 27, 28,
Feynmann, Richard, 47, 88
131–133
Field and Stream magazine, 25
Filippenko, Alex, 90
l
Four forces, the, 84, 156
Lampyris Noctiluca, 12
Language, 138, 139
g
Limitations of, 37, 136–140
Gisin, Nicholas, 51–52, 54
Leslie, John, 91
i N d e x
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Libet, Benjamin, 38–39
Probability laws, 63
Light
Probability state, 81
And color, 17
Probability waves, 51, 55, 59, 69
Behavior of in double-slit exper-
iment, 61–79
Q
Perception of, 35–36
Quantum fluctuation, 6
Polarized, 57, 70
Quantum mechanics: see Quantum
Nature of, 21
theory
Speed of, 49, 115
Quantum physics: see Quantum
Linde, Andrei, 178
theory
Locality, 49, 52–53, 124
Quantum theory, 1, 21, 47–50, 52,
Lorentz, Hendrik, 120, 121
58, 61–62, 70, 80, 95, 124, 178
Lorentz Transformation, 120,
And biocentrism, 195
199–200
And complementarity, 53, 70,
Luria, Salvador, 131–134
73
And technology, 47
m
As inexplicable, 51, 80, 136
Magnetism, 21, 22
Copenhagen interpretation of,
Many worlds interpretation (MWI),
54, 57–58, 177–178
58
Future of, 195–196
Mars, 8
Many worlds interpretation of,
Michelson, Albert, 119–120
58
MIT, 130–134
Quarter wave plates, 70–72, 75,
Morley, Edward, 119
77–79
Muybridge, Eadweard, 101
r
n
Rainbows, 22–23
NIST (National Institute of Science
Resonance, 88
and Technology), 52, 79, 80
Roemer, Ole, 102
Newton, Isaac, 62, 96, 105
New York Times Magazine, 34
s
Sagan, Carl, 8, 166
o
Scaled-up superposition, 59, 196
O’Donnell, Barbara, 30, 105–106,
Schrodinger, Erwin, 55, 177–178
108, 109, 133, 179
Skinner, B.F., 28, 153, 172,
O’Donnell, Eugene, 30–32
175–176
Sklar, Lawrence, 121
p
Sound, nature of, 19–20
Parker, Dennis, 144–146
Space, 111–127
Poe, Edgar Allan, 95
As illusory, 118
Pope, Alexander, 111
As inconstant, 115
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b i o C e N T r i s m
Space-time, 48–49, 122
Illustrations of, 63, 65, 67, 68,
Special relativity, 120–122, 124,
69
201–206
Spinoza, Benedict, 185
u
Star of Bethlehem, 153–154
Universe, expanding, 5–6
String theory, 1, 7, 14, 97, 162
Strong force, 88
w
Superpositions, 58, 137
Wave collapse, 16, 51
Wave-function, 50–51
t
Wave–particle duality, 49, 54, 55
Theory of everything, 1, 4, 13–14,
Weinberg, Stephen, 48, 173–174
119, 161–162, 174, 197
What the Bleep Do We Know?
Thoreau, Henry David, 28, 119,
(movie), 61
150, 151, 182, 183
Wheeler, John, 55, 90–91, 178–
Time, 95–110
179, 181, 197
As illusion, 90, 104
Wigner, Eugene, 81
Definition of, 107
Wineland, David, 52, 54
Dilation of, 103–104
Direction of, 99
z
Perception of, 109
Z-point energy, 117–118
Present versus future, 57
Zen, 114
Time dilation, 102–104
Zeno of Elea, 96–99, 101
Two-slit experiment, 53–56, 61–81
ABout the Authors
robert Lanza
Robert Lanza was taken under the wing of scientific
giants such as psychologist B.F. Skinner, immunologist
Jonas Salk, and heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Bar-
nard. His mentors described him as a “genius,” a “ren-
egade thinker,” even likening him to Einstein himself .
— US News & World Report cover story
Robert Lanza has been exploring the frontiers of science for more
than four decades, and is considered one of the leading scientists in
the world. He is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell
Technology, and Adjunct Professor at Wake Forest University School
of Medicine. He has several hundred publications and inventions,
and twenty scientific books, among them, Principles of Tissue Engi-
neering, which is recognized as the definitive reference in the field.
Others include One World: The Health & Survival of the Human Species in the 21st Century (with a foreword by President Jimmy Carter), and the Handbook of Stem Cells and Essentials of Stem Cell Biology, which are considered the definitive references in stem cell research.
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Dr. Lanza received his BA and MD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was both a University Scholar and Benjamin Franklin Scholar. He was also a Fulbright Scholar, and was part
of the team that cloned the world’s first human embryo, as well as
the first to clone an endangered species, to demonstrate that nuclear
transfer could reverse the aging process, and to generate stem cells
using a method that does not require the destruction of human
embryos. Dr. Lanza was awarded the 2005 Rave Award for Medicine
by Wired magazine, and received the 2006 “All Star” Award for Bio-
technology by Mass High Tech.
Dr. Lanza and his research have been featured in almost every
media outlet in the world, including all the major television net-
works, CNN, Time, Newsweek, People magazine, as well as the front pages of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, among others. Lanza has worked with some of the greatest thinkers of our time, including Nobel Laureates Gerald Edelman and Rodney Porter. Lanza worked closely with
B.F. Skinner at Harvard University. Lanza and Skinner (the “Father
of Modern Behaviorism”) published a number of scientific papers
together. He has also worked with Jonas Salk (discoverer of the polio
vaccine) and heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard.
bob berman
“this is a fascinating guy”
—David Letterman
“fasten your seatbelts and hold on tight”
— Astronomy magazine
Bob Berman is the most widely read astronomer in the world. Author
of more than one thousand published articles, in publications such
as Discover and Astronomy magazine, where he is a monthly colum-nist, he is also astronomy editor of The Old Farmer’s Almanac and the author of four books. He is adjunct professor of astronomy at Mary-mount College, and writes an
d produces a weekly show on North-
east Public Radio, aired during NPR’s Weekend Edition.
Document Outline
Contents
Introduction
muddy universe 1
In the Beginning There Was . . . What? 2
The Sound of a Falling Tree 3
Lights and Action! 4
Where Is the Universe? 5
Bubbles in Time 6
When Tomorrow Comes before Yesterday 7
The Most Amazing Experiment 8
Goldilocks’s Universe 9
No Time to Lose 10
Space Out 11
The Man Behind the Curtain 12
Windmills of the Mind 13
A Fall in Paradise 14
Building Blocks of Creation 15
What Is this Place? Religion, Science, and Biocentrism Look at Reality 16
Sci-Fi Gets Real 17
Mystery of Consciousness 18
Death and Eternity 19
Where Do We Go from Here? 20
Appendix 1 The Lorentz Transformation
Appendix 2 Einstein’s Relativity and Biocentrism
INDEX
About the Authors
