Sorry, guys and gals, but I just did a "copy" and now I gotta "paste" some Wu Li reviews for Jizz and some of you other GetBiggers because it could prove damn important in discovering a part of your brain that you never knew existed ..... or something like that.
I ,myself, had to read it more than once to get a rough idea of what it was all about but if you stick with it and read it nice and slow, it'll eventually knock the shit out of that space between your earlobes and you'll be saying WOW at the end of every chapter - at least that will be true once you pass the middle or a bit earlier.
Here are some Amazon book reviews:
At an Esalen Institute meeting in 1976, tai chi master Al Huang said that the Chinese word for physics is Wu Li, "patterns of organic energy." Journalist Gary Zukav and the others present developed the idea of physics as the dance of the Wu Li Masters--the teachers of physical essence. Zukav explains the concept further:
The Wu Li Master dances with his student. The Wu Li Master does not teach, but the student learns. The Wu Li Master always begins at the center, the heart of the matter.... This book deals not with knowledge, which is always past tense anyway, but with imagination, which is physics come alive, which is Wu Li.... Most people believe that physicists are explaining the world. Some physicists even believe that, but the Wu Li Masters know that they are only dancing with it.
The "new physics" of Zukav's 1979 book comprises quantum theory, particle physics, and relativity. Even as these theories age they haven't percolated all that far into the collective consciousness; they're too far removed from mundane human experience not to need introduction. The Dancing Wu Li Masters remains an engaging, accessible way to meet the most profound and mind-altering insights of 20th-century science. --Mary Ellen Curtin
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"Zukav is such a skillful expositor, with such amiable style, that it is hard to imagine a layman who would not find this book enjoyable and informative."
--Martin Gardner, staff writer, Scientific American -- Review
"'Stripped of mathematics, physics becomes pure enchantment'...I don't care how dumb you are at science; you'll come away from this book feeling like a Wu Li master yourself."
--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
"Zukav is such a skillful expositor, with such amiable style, that it is hard to imagine a layman who would not find this book enjoyable and informative."
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I don't see a bad review up there but don't let that initial hocus pokus scare ya off and do your best to get by the first 3 - 4 dozen pages where he expounds on the history mathmatic pioneers. (The cat in the black box thought process was miles above my head though.)
It really starts to get interesting when he starts speaking about the dual nature of light which is explained so simply that it can be understood by a cat. (You'll eventually learn that the dual nature of light will depend on how you observe it.)
And the book explains it much more simpler than I'm presently attempting to accomplish.
If I had a copy, I'd send it to ya but I've had seven soft bound copiesand I keep giving them to people whom I think should read it.
Thanks , Jizz, for your interest.
