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Post by 老子 » Sat Oct 17, 2020 10:19 pm

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I just read this interview with Fritjof Capra, author of The Tao of Physics:
I was not expecting 3 Nobel laureates to show up in the discussion: Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr & Rabindranath Tagore...
I had several discussions with Heisenberg. I lived in England then, and I visited him several times in Munich and showed him the whole manuscript [of Tao of Physics] 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.
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—Fritjof Capra, interviewed by Renee Weber in The Holographic Paradigm, 1982

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Post by AlysonA » Sun Oct 18, 2020 1:39 am

Thank you for posting this!
I am fascinated by Tagore, so I was interested to see this post linking him with Heisenberg, so I looked it up and found there is more to the story from Fritjof Capra posted on his blog:

https://www.fritjofcapra.net/heisenberg-and-tagore/

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