Originally published in 1979. This reprints the revised and expanded edition of 1996. In this volume, physicists, biologists and chemists, who have been involved in some of the most exciting discoveries in modern scientific thought explore issues which have shaped modern physics and which hint at what may form the next scientific revolution. The major issues discussed are the understanding of time and space, quantum and relativity theories and recent attempts to unite them and related questions in theoretical biology.

Paul Buckley, F. David Peat

Part 1 Conversations; Chapter 1 Werner Heisenberg; Chapter 2 Leon Rosenfeld; Chapter 3 David Joseph Bohm; Chapter 4 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker; Chapter 5 Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac; Chapter 6 Roger Penrose; Chapter 7 John Archibald Wheeler; Chapter 8 Ilya Prigogine; Chapter 9 Robert Rosen, Howard Hunt Pattee, and Raymond L. Somorjai: a Symposium in theoretical biology; Chapter 10 F. David Peat and Paul Buckley: reflections after twenty years; Part 2 Essays; Chapter 11 Paul Buckley: evolution and quantum consciousness; Chapter 12 Robert Rosen: the Schrödinger question: What is life? fifty years later; Appendix: the troubles of quantum theory; Glossary;