Mind Over Matter
Subtitle: Conversations with the Cosmos
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: April 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780151008162
First sentence: You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but the easiest person to fool is yourself.
Table of contents: title: Part 1 : The I of the beholder.; title: The emperor and Enron; title: Normalization; title: Blindsighted; title: Uncertainty; title: Murmurs; title: Eclipse; title: Humility; title: Inside out; title: Weird science; title: Love and bosons; title: Seeing; title: Moving mountains; title: Uncommon sense; title: Seeing stars; title: Calibration; title: Word problems; title: Naming names; title: Context; title: Purpose; title: Soul food; title: Lies; title: Part 2 : Stuff.; title: Surprises; title: Roots; title: Stuff; title: Surfaces; title: Wind; title: Clouds; title: Patterns; title: Recycling; title: Simplicity; title: Complexity; title: Dazzle; title: Energy; title: The real world; title: Magnetism; title: Sand castles; title: Resistance; title: Happenstance; title: Ghosts; title: Symmetry; title: Imperfection; title: Numbers; title: Symbols; title: Geometry; title: Coincidence; title: Change; title: Constants; title: Holes; title: Time; title: Part 3 : Doing it.; title: Play; title: Failure; title: Answers; title: Questions; title: Nuisance value; title: Boundaries; title: Toy models; title: Mind and matter; title: Pomp and circumstance; title: Happy birthday, Walter; title: An outrageous legacy; title: Beethoven and quantum mechanics; title: Alan and Lucretius; title: The sun painter; title: Invention and discovery; title: Red; title: Objectivity; title: Wherever you go, there you are; title: Metaphor; title: Literal truth; title: Far-out; title: Connected; title: Dubious discoveries; title: Deja vu; title: Credit; title: Claims; title: Fail safe; title: Part 4 : "Political" science.; title: The physics of peace; title: Default lines; title: (In)security; title: Feedback; title: Neutrality; title: Dreamers; title: Natural law; title: Popular science; title: The science of art; title: Small potatos (sic); title: The geometry of fairness; title: Faster; title: Unnatural; title: Apocalypse soon; title: Transparency; title: Oops