Abstract

This chapter serves several interrelated purposes. It surveys central developments in the history of the physical sciences in the period from 1900 to the beginning of World War II. The developments that concern us the most fall into three main streams: relativity theory, mechanics, and research on radioactivity. The chapter also presents the scientific basis for speculative superstructures concerning worldviews and new natural theologies. It looks briefly at three major works in the history of religion that could all have benefitted from it: Catherine Albanese's Republic of Mind and Spirit (2007); The Dancing Wu-Li Masters; and Fritjof Capra's Tao of Physics. When it comes to the substantial level of developing new areas of esoteric speculation based on modern physical science, the foundation was laid by leading physicists. The speculative ideas of Pauli, Jordan, and Schrodinger are still very much alive in contemporary quantum mysticism.Keywords: mythmaking; natural theologies; Physical Science; mechanics; relativity theory; research on radioactivity; scientific developments; scientific practice

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