David Peat

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F. David Peat (1938) è un fisico britannico.

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Allievo di David Bohm, ha svolto la sua attività di ricerca in Inghilterra e in Canada, dove ha lavorato al National Research Council.

Si è occupato della meccanica quantistica e della teoria del caos, ma anche di Carl Jung, di sincronicità, di aspetti di cultura generale e d'impegno socio-culturale (è noto il suo attivismo in favore degli Nativi americani).

Dal 1996, vive a Pari, in Toscana, dove ha creato il Pari Center for New Learning.

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• Looking Glass Universe: The Emerging Science of Wholeness, 1986, with John Briggs, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0-671-63215-9
• Science, Order and Creativity, 1987 with David Bohm, Routledge, 2nd ed. 2000: ISBN 0-415-17182-2
• Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind, 1987, Bantam, ISBN 0-553-34676-8
• Cold Fusion: The Making of a Scientific Controversy, 1989, Contemporary Books, ISBN 0-8092-4243-5
• Superstrings and the Search for the Theory of Everything, 1989, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-8092-4257-5
• Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness, 1989, with John Briggs, Harper & Row, 1990 Harper Perennial paperback ISBN 0-06-091696-6
• Einstein's Moon: Bell's Theorem and the Curious Quest for Quantum Reality, 1990, Contemporary Books, ISBN 0-8092-4512-4
• Lighting the Seventh Fire: The Spiritual Ways, Healing, and Science of the Native American, 1994, Carol Publishing, ISBN 1-55972-249-5
• Glimpsing Reality: Ideas in Physics and the Link to Biology, 1996, with Paul Buckley, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 0-8020-6994-0
• Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm, 1996, Perseus Books, ISBN 0-201-40635-7
• In Search of Nikola Tesla, 1997, Ashgrove Publishing, 2002 edition: ISBN 1-85398-117-6
• Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change, 1999, with John Briggs, HarperCollins, 2000 Harper Perennial paperback: ISBN 0-06-093073-X
• The Blackwinged Night: Creativity in Nature and Mind, 2001, Basic Books, ISBN 0-7382-0491-9
• From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century, 2002, Joseph Henry Press, ISBN 0-309-07641-2
• Blackfoot Physics: A Journey into the Native American Worldview, 2002, Phanes Press, ISBN 1-890482-83-8
• Pathways of Chance, 2005, Pari Publishing (in italiano, I sentieri del caso, 2004, Di Renzo Editore)