title: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
author:  Frank Wilczek 
description: Grand unification theories have long been a holy grail in science. Nobel Prizewinning physicist Wilczek, who has himself made notable contributions in this field, offers a survey of everything in the universe from quarks to black holes, elucidating the current scientific thinking on how matter and energy interact. The two main concepts are the Grid and the Core. Wilczek says the grid is a conceptual descendant of ether, that mysterious substance scientists once believed filled empty space. Now some physicists theorize that space is highly structured by the grid, which is the primary ingredient of physical reality and the substance from which all physical matter is formed. Core theory, on the other hand, provides a theory of everything, reconciling gravity with electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces. Wilczek reports a couple of problems with core theory: it's not very elegant (scientists love elegance in their equations), and it hasn't been reconciled with string theory. This book is not for most general readers, but will be a hit with hard-core science buffs. Photos, illus. <i>(Sept.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: ETHER, GOD 
  AND DEVIL/ 
  COSMIC 
  SUPERIMPOSITION 
  WILHELM REICH 
  WITH FIVE CHAPTERS
  NEWLY TRANSLATED 
  BY
  THERESE POL
  
  Contents
  Title Page
  Epigraph
  Ether, God and Devil
  I. The 
  Workshop 
  of 
  Orgonomic 
  Functionalism
  II. The Two Basic Pillars of Human Thought: “God” and
  “Ether”
  III. Organ Sensation as a Tool of Natural Research
  IV. Animism, Mysticism, and Mechanistics
  V. The Realm of the Devil
  VI. Cosmic Orgone Energy and “Ether”
  Cosmic Superimposition
  I. Stage and Meadow
  II. Survey on Man’s Roots in Nature
  III.
  The Function of Superimposition
  IV.
  The Living Orgonome
  V. Superimposition in Galactic Systems
  VI.
  The Ring of the Aurora Borealis, R—76
  VII. The Meaning of R—76
  VIII.The Rooting of Reason in Nature
  Notes
  Bibliography of Works by Reich on Orgone 
  Energy Glossary
  Index
  Books by Wilhelm Reich
  Copyright
  
  Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They 
  should also govern it.
  WILHELM REICH
  
  Chapters I-IV in Ether, God and Devil and chapter IV 
  in Cosmic Superimposition