Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe (27 page)

NIST (National Institute of Science and Technology)

Newton, Isaac

O’Donnell, Barbara

O’Donnell, Eugene

Parker, Dennis

Poe, Edgar Allan

Pope, Alexander

Probability laws

Probability state

Probability waves

Quantum fluctuation

Quantum mechanics:
see
Quantum theory

Quantum physics:
see
Quantum theory

Quantum theory

And biocentrism

And complementarity

And technology

As inexplicable

Copenhagen interpretation of

Future of

Many worlds interpretation of

Quarter wave plates

Rainbows

Resonance

Roemer, Ole

Sagan, Carl

Scaled-up superposition

Schrodinger, Erwin

Skinner, B.F.

Sklar, Lawrence

Sound, nature of

Space

As illusory

As inconstant

Space-time

Special relativity

Spinoza, Benedict

Star of Bethlehem

String theory

Strong force

Superpositions

Theory of everything

Thoreau, Henry David

Time

As illusion

Definition of

Dilation of

Direction of

Perception of

Present versus future

Time dilation

Two-slit experiment

Illustrations of

Universe, expanding

Wave collapse

Wave-function

Wave-particle duality

Weinberg, Stephen

What the Bleep Do We Know?
(movie)

Wheeler, John

Wigner, Eugene

Wineland, David

Z-point energy

Zen

Zeno of Elea

Robert Lanza has been exploring the frontiers of science for more than four decades, and is considered one of the leading scientists in the world. He is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, and Adjunct Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He has several hundred publications and inventions, and twenty scientific books, among them,
Principles of Tissue Engineering
, which is recognized as the definitive reference in the field. Others include
One World: The Health & Survival of the Human Species in the 21st Century
(with a foreword by President Jimmy Carter), and the
Handbook of Stem Cells
and
Essentials of Stem Cell Biology
, which are considered the definitive references in stem cell research.

Dr. Lanza received his BA and MD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was both a University Scholar and Benjamin Franklin Scholar. He was also a Fulbright Scholar, and was part of the team that cloned the world’s first human embryo, as well as the first to clone an endangered species, to demonstrate that nuclear transfer could reverse the aging process, and to generate stem cells using a method that does not require the destruction of human embryos. Dr. Lanza was awarded the 2005 Rave Award for Medicine by
Wired
magazine, and received the 2006 “All Star” Award for Biotechnology by
Mass High Tech
.

Dr. Lanza and his research have been featured in almost every media outlet in the world, including all the major television networks, CNN,
Time
,
Newsweek
,
People
magazine, as well as the front pages of the
New York Times
,
Wall Street Journal
,
Washington Post
,
Los Angeles Times
, and
USA Today
, among others. Lanza has worked with some of the greatest thinkers of our time, including Nobel Laureates Gerald Edelman and Rodney Porter. Lanza worked closely with B.F. Skinner at Harvard University. Lanza and Skinner (the “Father of Modern Behaviorism”) published a number of scientific papers together. He has also worked with Jonas Salk (discoverer of the polio vaccine) and heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard.

“this is a fascinating guy”

—David Letterman

“fasten your seatbelts and hold on tight”

—
Astronomy
magazine

 

Bob Berman is the most widely read astronomer in the world. Author of more than one thousand published articles, in publications such as
Discover
and
Astronomy
magazine, where he is a monthly columnist, he is also astronomy editor of
The Old Farmer’s Almanac
and the author of four books. He is adjunct professor of astronomy at Mary-mount College, and writes and produces a weekly show on North-east Public Radio, aired during NPR’s
Weekend Edition
.

Copyright © 2009 by Robert Lanza, MD, and Robert Berman

 

Illustrations © 2009 by Alan McKnight

 

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