TY - BOOK AU - Cole, K. C. TI - Mind over matter : : conversations with the cosmos SN - 9780156029568 U1 - 500 PY - 2003/// CY - Orlando PB - Harvast Book KW - Science KW - Popular works N1 - Introduction and Acknowledgments xi PART I: THE I OF THE BEHOLDER The Emperor and Enron 3 Normalization 6 (3) Blindsighted 9 Uncertainty 12 Murmurs 15 Eclipse 18 Humility 21 Inside Out 24 Weird Science 27 Love and Bosons 30 Seeing 34 Moving Mountains 37 Uncommon Sense 41 Seeing Stars 44 Calibration 47 Word Problems 50 Naming Names 53 Context 56 Purpose 59 Soul Food 62 Lies 66 PART II: STUFF Surprises 71 Roots 74 Stuff 77 Surfaces 80 Wind 83 Clouds 86 Patterns 89 Recycling 92 Simplicity 96 Complexity 100 Dazzle 103 Energy 106 The Real World 109 Magnetism 112 Sand Castles 116 Resistance 119 Happenstance 122 Ghosts 125 Symmetry 128 Imperfection 132 Numbers 135 Symbols 138 Geometry 141 Coincidence 145 Change 148 Constants 151 Holes 154 Time 157 PART III: DOING IT Play 163 Failure 166 Answers 169 Questions 172 Nuisance Value 175 Boundaries 178 Toy Models 181 Mind and Matter 184 Pomp and Circumstance 189 Happy Birthday, Walter 192 An Outrageous Legacy 195 Beethoven and Quantum Mechanics 198 Alan and Lucretius 201 The Sun Painter 204 Invention and Discovery 208 Red 211 Objectivity 214 Wherever You Go, There You Are 220 Metaphor 223 Literal Truth 227 Far-Out 230 Connected 233 Dubious Discoveries 236 Deja Vu 239 Credit 242 Claims 245 Fail Safe 248 PART IV: ``POLITICAL'' SCIENCE The Physics of Peace 253 Default Lines 257 (In)security 260 Feedback 263 Neutrality 266 Dreamers 269 Natural Law 273 Popular Science 276 The Science of Art 279 Small Potatos (sic) 282 The Geometry of Fairness 285 Faster 288 Unnatural 291 Apocalypse Soon 294 Transparency 297 Oops 300 Index 303 N2 - Presents a collection of essays that explore a variety of scientific subjects in the fields of physics, cosmology, astronomy, and mathematics ER -