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Physics World

Making physics popular

Robert P Crease

Published Apr 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

I once interviewed the Northern Irish physicist John Bell, who told me a curious tale about the wife of the then-American ambassador to Switzerland. Bell recalled how she rolled up at his office at CERN bearing a dog-eared copy of The Dancing Wu Li Masters , a book by the author and "soulhealer" Gary Zukav, seeking answers to her questions about the connections between quantum physics and Eastern mysticism.

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10.1088/2058-7058/22/04/30

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