Quanta in Distress

Sadri Hassani is Professor Emeritus of physics at Illinois State University and Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from Princeton University and is currently on the editorial board of Springer-Nature’s Graduate Texts in Physics series. His first publication, Mathematical Physics, a graduate-level textbook now in its third edition, has become an authoritative text on the subject. His current area of interest is using physics as a venue for the dissemination of critical thinking. He lives with his wife in Champaign, IL.

• Chapter 1: Of gods, goddesses, and philosophers.- Chapter 2: Sins of the fathers.- Chapter 3: Certainty of the probable.- Chapter 4: Pathway to quantum mysticism.- Chapter 5: Quantum consciousness crosses the Atlantic.- Chapter 6: Eastern plague of the sixties.- Chapter 7: Inventing modern physics.- Chapter 8: The Standard Model.- Chapter 9: Are you the universe.- Chapter 10: Messenger is not the message.- Chapter 11: What is to be done.

“Hassani impressively charts the principal mistakes made by the spiritual teachers looking for legitimacy via a connection to modern science, an undertaking that requires him to discuss quantum physics in some detail and with great clarity. … this is a rigorously researched and well-argued book that should be read by anyone interested in the commandeering of science by pseudoscience. A meticulous study composed in admirably accessible prose.” (Kirkus, kirkusreviews.com, October 27, 2024)