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This book presents a major step forward in experimentally
understanding the behavior of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos.
Apart from providing the world's first measurement of these
interactions in a mostly unexplored energy region, the data
presented advances the neutrino community's preparedness to search
for an asymmetry between matter and anti-matter that may very well
provide the physical mechanism for the existence of our universe.
The details of these measurements are preceded by brief summaries
of the history of the neutrino, the phenomenon of neutrino
oscillations, and a description of their interactions. Also
provided are details of the experimental setup for the measurements
and the muon antineutrino cross-section measurement which motivates
the need for dedicated in situ background constraints. The world's
first measurement of the neutrino component of an antineutrino beam
using a non-magnetized detector, as well as other crucial
background constraints, are also presented in the book. By
exploiting correlated systematic uncertainties, combined
measurements of the muon neutrino and antineutrino cross sections
described in the book maximize the precision of the extracted
information from both results.
Contemporary culture is soulless. A dead concept to contemporary
thinkers, Soul has been displaced by philosophical and scientific
abstracts. Yet, argues Joseph Grange in this timely and
thought-provoking book, without Soul we are left defenseless
against the negative constructs of our culture; neither matter nor
mind, nor brain, nor consciousness has the power to restore the
quickness of our existence. Indeed, without Soul, ethics,
particularly honesty, easily turns into its opposites: spin,
sophistry, artful deception.
Providing a speculative, systematic cosmology based on the
methodology developed by Alfred North Whitehead and referencing a
variety of philosophers, Western and Eastern, classic and
contemporary, Grange offers an understanding of Soul as expression.
Grange lays out the basic characteristics of Soul as
transformative, social, and conscious power and goes on to discuss
the possibility of mystical reason and experience. Actual steps to
reconstruct Soul, including meditation, are offered. Spinoza s
Ethics, Vipassana meditation, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy are
shown to have particular resources for soul transformation.
This volume concludes Grange s trilogy of cosmologies. Nature: An
Environmental Cosmology and The City: An Urban Cosmology discussed
the natural environment and the cultural environment. The Soul
complements these with an account of the spiritual environment."
Joseph Grange's beautifully written book provides a unique
synthesis of two major figures of world philosophy, John Dewey and
Confucius, and points the way to a global philosophy based on
American and Confucian values. Grange concentrates on the major
themes of experience, felt intelligence, and culture to make the
connections between these two giants of Western and Eastern
thought. He explains why the Chinese called Dewey "A Second
Confucius," and deepens our understanding of Confucius's concepts
of the way (dao) of human excellence (ren). The important
dimensions of American and Chinese cultural philosophy are welded
into an argument that calls for the liberation of what is finest in
both traditions. The work gives a new appreciation of fundamental
issues facing Chinese and American relations and brings the
opportunities and dangers of globalization into focus.
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