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''The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism'' is a 1975 book by physicist Fritjof Capra. It was a bestseller in the United States, and has been published in 43 editions in 23 languages. The fourth edition in English was published in 2000. ==Origin== The following excerpt from ''The Tao of Physics'' summarizes Capra's motivation for writing this book. According to the preface of the first edition, reprinted in subsequent editions, Capra struggled to reconcile theoretical physics and Eastern mysticism and was at first "helped on my way by 'power plants'" or psychedelics, with the first experience "so overwhelming that I burst into tears, at the same time, not unlike Castaneda, pouring out my impressions to a piece of paper". (p. 12, 4th ed.) Capra later discussed his ideas with Werner Heisenberg in 1972, as he mentioned in the following interview excerpt: I had several discussions with Heisenberg. I lived in England then (1972 ), and I visited him several times in Munich and showed him the whole manuscript chapter by chapter. He was very interested and very open, and he told me something that I think is not known publicly because he never published it. He said that he was well aware of these parallels. While he was working on quantum theory he went to India to lecture and was a guest of Tagore. He talked a lot with Tagore about Indian philosophy. Heisenberg told me that these talks had helped him a lot with his work in physics, because they showed him that all these new ideas in quantum physics were in fact not all that crazy. He realized there was, in fact, a whole culture that subscribed to very similar ideas. Heisenberg said that this was a great help for him. Niels Bohr had a similar experience when he went to China.〔Fritjof Capra, interviewed by Renee Weber in the book ''The Holographic Paradigm'', Shambhala/Random House. 1982. pages 217–218. ISBN 0-394-71237-4〕 As a result of those influences, Bohr adopted the yin yang symbol as part of his family coat of arms when he was knighted in 1947. ''The Tao of Physics'' was followed by other books of the same genre like ''The Hidden Connection'', ''The Turning Point'' and ''The Web of Life'' in which Capra extended the argument of how Eastern mysticism and scientific findings of today relate, and how Eastern mysticism might also have answers to some of the biggest scientific challenges of today. R. G. H. Siu's 1957 book ''The Tao of Science: an Essay on Western Knowledge and Eastern Wisdom'' has a similar title, but concerns business management.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=MIT Press )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Tao of Physics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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