Wolfgang Pauli

This is the fifth in the series on dual aspect monism and the second focusing on the conjecture developed from physics and psychology. Dual aspect monism is a theory about the nature of reality that dates back to early days of Greek philosophy. Because it suggests that our mental experiences…

The young scientist was heartbroken. His cabaret singer wife left him for an old boyfriend after less than a year of marriage. The old boyfriend was a chemist and the jilted, brilliant young scientist complained that if his wife had left him for a bullfighter, he might have understood. But…

The Swiss-American theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958) once stated (in a 1954 letter to Max Born) the following often-quoted words: “[O]ne should no more rack one’s brain about the problem of whether something one cannot know anything about exists all the same, than about the ancient question of how many…

“Syn­chronic­i­ty is the com­ing togeth­er of inner and out­e events in a way that can­not be explained by cause and effect, and that is mean­ing­ful to the observ­er.” — Carl Jung Skep­ti­cism reigns supreme in sci­ence. When some­thing doesn’t make sense, there is a search for truths. Since the begin­ning…

Nobel laureate physicist Wolfgang Pauli had a penchant for hurling evil zingers at other scientists By the age of 20, Viennese physicist Wolfgang Pauli had acquired the reputation of being a wunderkind, a child genius. His PhD supervisor Arnold Sommerfeld had recruited him to write an article about Einsteinian relativity…

This is the second of a series of articles on the controversy in science referred to as “top-down” vs. “bottom-up.” Does physicalism describe all there is to reality, or is there something more. The collaboration of two twentieth century pioneers of physics and psychology provides an enlightening example of how…

How Disaster Accompanied a Quantum Physicist Wherever He Went To the world, Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli was an esteemed theoretical physicist, a Nobel laureate. To the depth psychology community associated with Carl G. Jung, his extraordinary, vivid dreams, packed with symbolism (according to Jung), and anonymously conveyed to preserve patient…