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Quantum Tai Chi
The Quantum Tai Chi (Gauge Theory: The Dance of Mind Over Matter)
by P. Stephen Petersen, PhD. Scientific Nonfiction.
Paperback, 210 pages, ISBN = 1890711004.
Published 12-1-97. Retail: $14.95 US





PREFACE: No Footprints in the Snow
INTRODUCTION: Wu Hua: The Magic of the Tai Chi of Physics

Chapter 1 Chen: The Arousing
THE BIRTH OF GAUGE THEORY
Part A. The Gauge: A Standard of Measure
Milne's Different Drum
Part B. Weyl's Relativity of Measurement
All Forces Are Gauge Forces

Chapter 2 Sun: The Gentle
A CHILD'S VERSION OF THE NEW RELATIVITY
Playing Tai Chi Beyond Space and Time
Global and Local Tai Chi's

Chapter 3 Li: The Elegant
QUANTUM GAUGE THEORY
Part A. Particles and No-Particles
Psi: The Quantum Tai Chi
Part B. Weyl's Quantum Theory of Electromagnetism

Chapter 4 K'un: The Receptive
THE TAO AND THE QUANTUM GAUGE
Dr. Bertlmann's Socks
Karma and Wigner's Mind Waves
Sir Arthur's Comparison Tai Chi
Can the Tai Chi Collapse Psi?
Healing Schroedinger's Cat
The Gauge As A Hidden Variable

Chapter 5 Tui: The Joyous
THE YANG-MILLS PARADIGM
Part A. Noether's Theorem: Global Tai Chi's
The Foundation: the Electromagnetic Gauge
The Nucleus as an Equal Opportunity Employer
Fiber Bundles: Natural and Real
Part B. The Electroweak Miracle
The Color Force and Grand Unification
Supersymmetry: Super 'Wu Hua'
Lao Tzu and the Tzupercollider

Chapter 6 Chi'en: The Creative
INTERPRETING THE QUANTUM TAI CHI
Apparatus Tai Chi in Italian
A Watched Pot Never Boils
Pearle Dives into the Unknown
A Phase Transition in the Brain?

Chapter 7 K'an: The Toiling
MIND OVER QUANTUM MATTER
The Tai Chi of Superconductivity
The Temperature of Consciousness
Quantum Gravity's Simplest of all Possible Worlds

Chapter 8 Ken: The Meditating
TOWARD A GAUGE THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Wave Functions (Tai Chis) for Life Decisions
The Gauge Theory of Cycles
The Memory Tai Chi

Chapter 9 Chung: The Peaceful
FOREVER JUNG (AND YANG)
Synchronicity
The Tibetan Wheel of Time
Ezekiel and the Wheels
Healing Rivers: The Breath and the Blueprint of Life
Healing and the Quantum Tai Chi
Gauge Theory: A Proof of the Existence of God?

EPILOGUE: The Universe: Holographic or Phase 'Magnetic'?