文档介绍：THE
TAO
OF
PHYSICS
Shambhala Publications, Inc.
1123 Spruce Street
Boulder, Colorado 80302
0 1975 by Fritjof Capra. All Rights Reserved.
ISBN: o-87773-077-6 (cloth)
o-87773-078-4 (paper)
LCC: 75-10318
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Manufactured in the United States of America
THE
TAO
OF
PHYSICS
An Exploration of the Parallels
Between Modern Physics
ad Eastern Mysticism
by Frifjof Capra
Shambhala
Boulder l 1975
I dedicate this book to
Ali Akbar Khan
Carlos Castaneda
Geoffrey Chew
John Coltrane
Werner Heisenberg
Krishnamurti
Liu Hsiu Ch’i
Phiroz Mehta
Jerry Shesko
8obby Smith
Maria Teuff enbach
Alan Watts
for helping me to find my path
and to Jacqueline
who has travelled with me
on this path
most of the time.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission
to reproduce copyright illustrations on the following pages:
pp. 14-15: Fermi National Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois;
p. 38: Foto Gary Elliott Burke;
pp. 52-53,79, 234, 236: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland;
pp. 82-83: reprinted from Zazen by E. M. Hooykaas and B.
Schierbeck, Omen Press, Tucson, Arizona;
pp. 84,148: Estate of Eliot Elisofon;
p. 91: Gunvor Moitessier;
p. 92: reprinted from The Evolution of the Buddha Image by
Benjamin Rowland Jr., The Asia Society, New York;
pp. 100,112,188: Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art;
pp. 120, 258: r eprinted from Zen and lapanese Culture by
D. T Suzuki, Bollingen Series LXIV, by permission of Prince-
ton University Press;
: reprinted from Physics in the Twentieth Century by
Victor Weisskopf, . Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
p. 144: Nordisk Pressefoto, Copenhagen, Denmark;
p. 195: Hale Observatories, Pasadena, California;
pp. 202, 206, 224, 233, 237, 267: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
Berkeley, California;
pp. 230, 232: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois;
p. 243: reprinted from The Arts of India by Ajit Mookerj