Glimpsing Reality: Ideas in Physics and the Link to Biology

The conversations - with Bohm, Pattee, Penrose, Rosen, Rosenfeld, Somorjai, Weizsдcker, Wheeler, and Nobel prizewinners Heisenberg and Dirac, cofounders of quantum theory, and Prigogine - explore issues which have shaped modern physics and ones which hint at what may form the next scientific revolution. The discussions range over a set of basic problems in physical theory and their possible solutions - the understanding of space, time, and cosmology, the genesis of quantum theory and criticism of the standard interpretations of it, quantum and relativity theories and attempts to unite them and the conceptual links between physics and biology.