Science with Street Value
A Physicist's Wanderings off the Beaten Track
Published on 20. October 2020
240 pages
978-3-8382-7447-8 (ISBN)
Description
In his groundbreaking book Predictions, Theodore Modis showed readers a fascinating new way to understand our society and ourselves by applying fundamental scientific concepts to predicting social phenomena. Now he pushes his physics-applied-to-life approach further to show that some fundamental truths cast into scientific laws are ubiquitous and enter our lives in subtle ways that we may not be aware of. In a kind of twenty-first century version of Plato's Dialogues he offers new insights on life's many possibilities and ambiguities everywhere from managing business and personal relationships to finding purpose in one's existence. This book will titillate the mind of all science-friendly readers.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
File size
5,99 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-8382-7447-8 (9783838274478)
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Person
Theodore Modis was born in Greece. At the age of eighteen he won a full scholarship to study in the United States. He received a Masters in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Physics, both from Columbia University, New York. He carried out research in particle-physics experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory and afterward at CERN in Europe. Later he switched to industry and worked at Digital Equipment Corporation as the head of a Management Science consultants group. Ten years later he founded his own consulting company, Growth Dynamics, in Geneva. He is author/co-author to over one hundred articles in scientific and business journals and ten books translated into a number of languages. He has on occasion taught at Columbia University, the University of Geneva, the European business schools INSEAD and IMD, and the leadership school DUXX in Monterrey, Mexico. He lives in Lugano, Switzerland. For more info visit www.growth-dynamics.com
Content
- Intro
- 1 - Signs of Disenchantment
- 2 - There Cannot Be Magic
- 3 - Precocious Cross-Disciplinarity
- 4 - The Order of Mendios
- 5 - Hypnosis Demystified
- 6 - A Weirdoes Filing Cabinet
- 7 - Making Contact with the G. Institute
- 8 - Running after Entropy on Saturday Morning
- 9 - Why Is the Sky Dark at Night?
- 10 - Make Space for Time
- 11 - Intricate Aspects of Time
- 12 - The Humanities of Science
- 13 - Accidents, Karma, Destiny, Miracles
- 14 - As Above so Below
- 15 - Mathematics with Social Use
- 16 - The Power of Attention
- 17 - Love Science
- 18 - The Opposite of a Great Truth Is another Great Truth
- 19 - Opposites Meet
- 20 - Life Feeds on Differences
- 21 - The Harmony in Moderation
- 22 - The Symbolism of the Cross
- 23 - Mind over Body
- 24 - If I can, I want
- 25 - Management Science
- 26 - The S-Shaped Adventure
- 27 - Using S-Curves to Unearth Secrets
- 28 - Symmetries and Invariants
- 29 - The Shape of Things
- 30 - Natural Growth in Competition
- 31 - Showing Off at Conferences
- 32 - Publishing for Fun, not for Survival
- 33 - Entelechy
- 34 - One Cannot Part with Knowledge, Much Less with Understanding
- 35 - Setting Straight the AIDS Threat
- 36 - Scientific Certification
- 37 - A Down-to-Earth Nobel Laureate
- 38 - Fallout
- 39 - Growth Dynamics
- 40 - "If winter is here, can spring be far behind?" Percy B. Shelley
- 41 - Scientifically Sanitized Biorhythms
- 42 - A Leadership School Experiment
- 43 - Insights into Fluctuations
- 44 - Accelerating Trends and The Singularity Myth
- 45 - A Paradise Paradigm
- 46 - Science with Street Value
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
