
Synchronicity
The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
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Narrated by:
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Jeff Hoyt
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Paul Halpern
From Aristotle's Physics to quantum teleportation, learn about the scientific pursuit of instantaneous connections in this insightful examination of our world.
For millennia, scientists have puzzled over a simple question: Does the universe have a speed limit? If not, some effects could happen at the same instant as the actions that caused them - and some effects, ludicrously, might even happen before their causes. By 100 years ago, it seemed clear that the speed of light was the fastest possible speed. Causality was safe. And then quantum mechanics happened, introducing spooky connections that seemed to circumvent the law of cause and effect.
Inspired by the new physics, psychologist Carl Jung and physicist Wolfgang Pauli explored a concept called synchronicity, a weird phenomenon they thought could link events without causes. Synchronicity tells that sprawling tale of insight and creativity, and asks where these ideas - some plain crazy, and others crazy powerful - are taking the human story next.
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Critic reviews
"Paul Halpern has zeroed in on one of the biggest mysteries in physics: objects with no mechanical linkage somehow act in harmony. He gives it a human face by digging into the Pauli-Jung collaboration-there is nothing else quite like it in the history of science." —George Musser, author of Spooky Action at a Distance
"Synchronicity is a sweeping account of humanity's understanding of the nature of causality. With great virtuosity, Paul Halpern weaves together all of the threads of this important story from the ancient Greeks to modern physics while entertaining the reader with insightful character studies and colorful anecdotes. A delightful book that anyone interested in the history of ideas will enjoy." —John Kounios, coauthor of The Eureka Factor
"Synchronicity is a very informative and thought-provoking account of humankind's efforts from antiquity to the present to understand the causal structure of the everyday world and, during the past century, to unite that understanding with the apparently acausal nature of the quantum world of atoms and particles. Paul Halpern writes with remarkable clarity and insight in a very accessible and engaging style." —David C. Cassidy, author of Beyond Uncertainty
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A book titled Synchronicity that’s not about Synchronicity.
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Not about synchronicity
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I liked his other book about Feynman and Wheeler, "The Quantum Labyrinth", more than this one. It offers more insights into the physics, and more interesting character development. He still drops you on your head, but at least you have a smile of intrigue while you land.
The narrator for this audible has a great voice, with good intonation, but dammit why do the publishers allow people who have no clue about the history of physics to read a book on the history of physics??? As soon as these guys pronounce gymnasium as if it's where students go to play basketball, you've lost your credibility as a legit narrator with the type of audience that listens to these physics audibles.
Good enough for lay audience, but lacks depth
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Not what I thought. More of a history
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An unexpected justification for synchronicity
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Delightful!
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Too much detail in the wrong places
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Too much Devine wisdom, A waste of time and money.
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Book title is not what book is about
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