World in Process

At the University of California, Davis, John A. Jungerman is Professor Emeritus of Physics and Founding Director of the Crocker Nuclear Physics Laboratory. He is the coauthor (with Paul P. Craig) of Nuclear Arms Race: Technology and Society.

"Jungerman has done us a great service. The book is useful and a good introduction to the topic." — C. Robert Mesle, author of Process Theology: A Basic Introduction"The author masterfully relates Whiteheadian ideas to modern physics and vice-versa. A conscientious and entertaining review of the broad sweep of physics history is blended with insightful connections to spiritual aspects of process philosophy." — Geoffrey Chew, University of California, Berkeley"Jungerman provides a systematic and fascinating overview of modern physics, with many accessible examples, illustrating many of the major results of the 'new' physics, and does so in a way that carefully illustrates how process-relational themes permeate the field in many ways that are generally neglected or masked by efforts to translate the language into classical Newtonian forms." — Timothy E. Eastman, Plasmas International

• Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction to SUNY series in Constructive Postmodern Thought 1. Process Philosophy IntroductionPrincipal IdeasSummary 2. Ideas from the Special and General Theories of Relativity Ideas from the Special Theory of RelativityIdeas from the General Theory of RelativityScience as ProcessProcess Thought and Relativity 3. Microworld, Part I: Waves and Particles Evidence that Light Is a WaveEvidence that Light Is a ParticleLight: A Wave or a Particle?Matter Waves Too!Process Thought and the Nature of Light 4. The Microworld, Part II: Quantum Mechanics A Brief History of Atomic Models and Quantum MechanicsConcepts Resulting from Quantum MechanicsTwo Applications of Quantum MechanicsRelativistic Quantum MechanicsProcess Thought and Quantum Mechanics 5. The Microworld, Part III: High-Energy Physics Constituents of MatterThe Four ForcesThe Emptiness of "Solid" MatterProcess Thought and High-Energy Physics 6. The Macroworlds, Part I: Complex Systems Entropy and the Arrow of TimeNonlinear SystemsChaosProcess Thought and Complex Systems 7. The Macroworld, Part II: Cosmology The Big BangEvidence Supporting the Big Bang HypothesisProblems with the Big Bang HypothesisAnswers to the Problems of Flatness and Isotropy: InflationHawking's TheoryGalaxy and Stellar FormationCosmology and Process Thought 8. Cosmology and Divinity The Case for Divine GuidanceProcess TheologyLimitations of Process TheologySummary of Principal Ideas 9. Epilogue: A World in Process A Look BackScience and Metaphysics as ProcessA Process Worldview Notes Glossary Suggested Additional Reading Note on Supporting Center Index