New from Dr Wolfgang Smith

“One of the best-kept secrets of science,” physicist Nick Herbert writes, “is that physicists have lost their grip on reality.” [Chapter 2, Physicists Losing Their Grip, p. 15]

Dr Wolfgang Smith explores this and a number of other 'secrets of science' in his recently published monograph: Physics & Vertical Causation, the End of Quantum Reality (Angelico Press, 2019, available on Amazon Kindle). The book accompanies a film which is due to be released in Autumn 2019: The End of Quantum Reality, featuring Dr Smith and produced by Rick Delano, producer of 'The Principle'.

Wolfgang Smith graduated from Cornell University at the age of eighteen with majors in physics, philosophy, and mathematics. He received his master's degree in theoretical physics from Purdue University and was subsequently employed at Bell Aircraft Corporation as an aerodynamicist. After taking his Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University, Smith held faculty positions at M.I.T., U.C.L.A., and Oregon State University. His published work includes Cosmos and Transcendence, The Wisdom of Ancient Cosmology, and The Quantum Enigma: Finding the Hidden Key.

Physics & Vertical Causation is a veritable tour de force, reflecting the unique background of Dr Smith in mathematics, science, traditional (including scholastic) philosophy as well as eastern philosophy and tradition. His style is eminently readable for the non-specialist such as this reviewer, although one or two passages require very careful reading and reflection.

The book is relatively short (150 pages in hardback) and is divided into seven chapters. For a thought-provoking review, please visit the Philos-Sophia Initiative website.

Rather than writing a formal review, I aim in this and subsequent posts to give readers a flavour of Dr Smith's remarkable, countercultural insights.

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