Albert, David - a protégé
of Bohm's, physicist, author of several texts including, Quantum
Mechanics and Experience; |
Foulis, David - American quantum
logician; presented a
famous quantum logic paper at 1995 Einstein Meets Magritte
conference in Brussels, Belgium; |
Powers, Richard - Book Circle Prize
winning author; MacArthur Fellow; works include The
Goldbug Variations, Prisoner's Dilemma, Operation
Wandering Soul, Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance,
and Galatea 2.2; |
Alexander, Christopher - nouveau
anthropological form and context via architecture, pioneer architect,
author; author of several texts including, Notes on the Synthesis
of Form, The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern
Language, etc. |
Gleick, James - author of popular
works including Chaos, Genius, et al.; His Genius
is a biography of Richard P. Feynman, and is one of our favorite
and most accessed texts; |
Savage, Rhett - physicist; see his
web site (we have temporarily lost his link at Reed, in Portland,
Oregon); source of our personal discovery of Mae-wan Ho's book
the Rainbow and the Worm; |
Baggott, Jim - physicist, author
of a superb text on quantum theory, The Meaning of Quantum
Theory; |
Gribbin, John - Physicist and author
of countless popular works, we learned our proto-genetic theory
from his ample and extensive works; |
Schrödinger, Erwin - Nobel
prize winning Austrian physicist who invented quantum wave mechanics; |
Bell, J. S. - famed for his Bell's Theorem which demonstrates
non-locality of quantum c¤mplementarity's included-middle; |
Grim, Patrick - SUNY philosophy
professor, author of The Philosophical Computer, computer
modeler of (mostly classical) philosophical concepts demonstrates
effectively evolutionarily unstable strategynote of
several philosophical concepts; |
Singh, Simon - English physicist
from U. of Cambridge; author, a recent work is Fermat's Enigma
where Singh demonstrates and exposes mathematics' deign of predicate
logical feign; |
Bergson, Henri Louis - renowned
French philosopher, author of countless works several of which
we review extensively in Quantonics including, An
Introduction to Metaphysics, Creative
Evolution, Time
and Free Will, Matter and Memory; |
Heisenberg, Werner Karl - German
Nobel prize winning physicist (for his Uncertainty
Principle), a founder of quantum matrix mechanics; |
Stein, Irving - American polymath;
author of The Concept
of Object as the Foundation of Physics which we review
in Quantonics; |
Bohr, Niels - father of "orthodox"
Quantum Theory, father of a quantum "exclusive" complementarity
meme, a subjective meme which his 'peers,' including Einstein,
denounced as such much as Galileo did under a similar
inquisition, Bohr feigned to belie complementarity's subjectivity;
see our Quantonics comments on two
kinds of quantum c¤mplementarity:
Bohrian and Quantonic. |
Herbert, Nick - physicist and popularly
read author of multiple works our favorite of which, Quantum
Reality; |
Thomas, Dan - currently teaches
quantum science and quantum chemistry at U. of Guelph, Ontario;
see his
web site; |
Bohm, David
- father of Non-Mechanics of Quanta meme; physicist; author
of famous Quantum Theory (1952); our favorite quote:
"We are led, instead, to a new point of view, based on
[an] idea that [] quanta connecting object and environment constitute
irreducible links that belong, at all times, as much to one part
as to [an] other." See Chapter 8, Sec. 24, Quantum
Theory, by David Bohm, Dover, 1979 (originally published
by Prentice Hall, 1951). (Doug's brackets to remove thelogos.) |
Hesse, Hermann - Nobel prize winning
author of Magister Ludi, Steppenwolf, et al. works; |
Tomonaga, Sin Itiro - Superb Japanese
physicist; author of The Story of Spin (1974) recently
translated into English (1996); TSoS takes its form as
a series of 12 lectures; very worthwhile your efforts to consume
- a magical island of quantum esoterica - Castaway there for
as long as it takes and you will emerge a wholly enlightened
person |
Capra, Fritjof - his quantum interpenetration
meme aligns Bohr's quantum complementarity and offers hints of
quantum included-middle logical memes those new memes
allow extraordinary scientists to discard facile Aristotelian
and Newtonian excluded-middle concepts; author of The Tao
of Physics, et al. |
Ho, Mae-wan - quantum biologist,
author of one of our favorites, the
Rainbow and the Worm; |
von Neumann, John - a Hungarian
and an American mathematician who wrote a mathematical principia
of quantum matrix and wave mechanics called Mathematical Foundations
of Quantum Mechanics (original German text 1932; , English
translations available after 1949). This text was both a blessing
and a curse. A blessing in that it helped others to understand
a classical mathematical analogue of quantum reality; a curse
(see Foulis, et al.) because quantum reality is non-mechanical,
as David Bohm and others have so eloquently expressed. Von Neumann,
like Geertz spent quality time starting in 1933 at IAS, Princeton; |
Dawkins, Richard - English biologist;
coined 'meme,' as an animate, viral, mutating percept which emerges
among sentient nodes of reality's quantum stage; coined phrase
Evolutionarily Stable Strategy (ESS), for species who survive
reality's quantum uncertain heterogeneous and hetero-temporal
vagaries; see Patrick Grim nearby for computer models of philosophical
memes which are both ESS and En¤nSS; Dawkins is author
of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, et al. |
Howard, Don - Philosopher of Science
(Boston University), in particular quantum science; one of the
most articulate metaphysicians in America today; his limited
works are superb; Howard is one of few whom we consider nearest
to "understanding" quantum reality; considers himself
a metaphysician, "out of necessity;" Howard is currently
a full professor at University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana;
see a favorite quote
of ours in bold red text; |
Wheeler, John - American physicist;
one of Feynman's mentors, peers; Wheeler invented many gedankenments
to test quantum theory; one was brought to nearly full fruition
during 2007 and Doug did a review of a fledged
experiment which was done at Henri Bergson's alma mater; |
Deutsch, David - a pioneer in quantum
computing; wrote The
Fabric of Reality which we review nearby; |
Josephson, Brian - British physicist;
innovative pioneer of "the Josephson junction;" evolving
interests in quantum biology; see
our review of Donald McDonald's description of battle twixt Josephson
and John Bardeen over quantum junction tunneling; |
Wolf, F. A. - Physicist, author
of popular works, e.g., Parallel Universes, et al.; |
Dirac, P. A. M. - father of heterogeneous
times meme vis-à-vis classical homogeneous time concept;
father of bra-ket notation used extensively in quantum logical
manipulations; |
Kitto, H. D. - English Greek historian,
author of The Greeks, and many other texts; Pirsig refers
Kitto in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; see
a Kitto reference by Pirsig at The
Birth of SOM; |
Zeilinger,
Anton - physicist; with Nicolas Gisin demonstrated quantum superluminality
of quantonic phase inversion over multi-kilometer distances; |
d'Espagnat, Bernard - French theoretical
physicist; author of Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
(an absolutely superb text); in that text he makes some remarkable
and quantum statements, including "science is presumably
not in itself a sufficient tool for gaining full access to []
reality;" his eight quantum reality propositions assist
a partially realized departure from classical conceptions of
reality; |
Pagels, Heinz - American physicist;
one time director of New York Academy of Sciences; author of
multiple works, our favorite Dreams of Reason; tragic
life story; wife is renowned Elaine Pagels, theologist; Doug
wrote this poem dedicated
to Heinz Pagels. |
Zohar, Danah - Author of Quantum
Self, Quantum Society, et al.; we recommend latter
for those of you who wish a more quantum view of social anthropology; |
Feferman, Solomon - logician |
Pirsig, R. M. - famed rhetorician,
millions of his works in print - our non-acknowledging co-opted
mentor J; author of Zen and
the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and Lila; |
Zukav, Gary - famous writer, author;
our favorite Zukav text is Dancing Wu Li Masters; |
Finkelstein, David - quantum logician; |
Poe, Edgar Allen - famed poet, less
well known as a philosopher; to sample his philosophical predilections
read his The Gold Bug. |
et al. |