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By Victor J. Stenger

Does quantum mechanics exhibit a connection among the human brain and the cosmos? Are our brains tuned right into a "cosmic consciousness" that pervades the universe permitting us to make our personal fact? Do quantum mechanics and chaos conception offer a spot for God to behave on this planet with no violating ordinary legislation?

Many well known books make such claims and argue that key advancements in twentieth-century physics, reminiscent of the uncertainty precept and the butterfly influence, aid the inspiration that God or a common brain acts upon fabric reality.

Physicist Victor J. Stenger examines those contentions during this rigorously reasoned and incisive research of renowned theories that search to hyperlink spirituality to physics. through the ebook Stenger alternates his discussions of renowned spirituality with a survey of what the findings of twentieth-century physics really suggest. hence he bargains the reader an invaluable synopsis of latest non secular rules in addition to easy yet subtle physics offered in layperson's phrases (without equations).

Of specific curiosity during this ebook is Stenger's dialogue of a brand new type of deism, which proposes a God who creates a universe with many attainable pathways made up our minds accidentally, yet in a different way doesn't intervene with the actual global or the lives of people. even though it is feasible, says Stenger, to conceive of the sort of God who performs cube with the universe and leaves no hint of his position as top mover, one of these God is a miles cry from conventional non secular rules of God and, in impact, may perhaps to boot now not exist.

Like his bestselling publication, God, The Failed Hypothesis, this new paintings provides a conscientiously argued problem to many renowned notions of God and spirituality.

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