The Complementary Nature Of Reality - Softcover

Barab, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982263708 ISBN 13: 9780982263709

Publisher: Open Way Press, 2010

Synopsis

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The theories of modern physics have been extremely successful in helping us to predict the course of physical phenomena with a very high degree of accuracy. We can manipulate and control the world in amazing ways, providing the basis for our advanced technological culture. But our ability to understand nature has not kept pace — and we still do not have a unified model which brings the various theories and forces together.

This book argues that the key to addressing both these problems is based upon a very old idea, one that was also introduced into the new physics many years ago by the great quantum theory pioneer Niels Bohr. The thesis is called complementarity, and the task here is to transform that concept into a powerful and sophisticated general tool of analysis which can be applied pervasively to all phenomena. Put in a nutshell, the mission of this work is to demonstrate that complementarity represents the central organizing principle of nature — and as such should also serve as the core of a coherent model of nature.

Review

“A solid blend of scientific hypothesis and philosophy, The Complementary Nature of Reality is a thought-provoking exploratory treatise.” — Small Press Bookwatch

“The Complementary Nature of Reality is a book dealing with an old issue in a very systematic and elaborative way for the first time — the complementarity of nature and its relevance for the scientific understanding of reality.... [T]he book demonstrates that any good theory of science must be compatible with a viable model of cognition.” — The Radical Humanist

“[M]any fundamental notions as they appear in physics are engaged with, [in] this remarkably brave work.... I recommend this book as useful and bracing to those who share [Barab’s] desire to reconceptualize physics but also to those, such as myself, who are now motivated to explore more deeply and historically, a complementary view of the world; the possibility that unity is a dual.” — Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

“Connectivity and the essence of nature, theory building and theory evaluation, and above all a unified model of nature, are all examined through the complementary framework ... Not only the canvas of the book but also the arguments that are put in place are laudable. Barab’s The Complementary Nature of Reality is a priceless contribution to the field of science studies.” — Science Communication

Edition details

• Publisher: Open Way Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0982263708
• ISBN 13: 9780982263709
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 538