[MD] sideways drifting

[MarshaV]

Greetings,

A few weeks ago I heard an interview of Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams 
concerning their new book, 'The View from the Center of the 
Universe'.  The interview was presented as "A world-renowned 
cosmologist and an innovative writer of the history and philosophy of 
science present a new, scientifically supported understanding of the 
universe, one that profoundly changes our relationship to the cosmos."

I interpreted what they were saying as we humans are still living 
with a cosmology based on the Newtonian model of the Universe, and it 
is time for something better based on modern scientifically-tested 
discoveries.  Of course I ordered the book.  I ordered it because 
they also stated during the interview, and I also found it written in 
the book,  "To meet that challenge,... If this new picture can 
inspire the writers, artists, and open-minded thinkers who are the 
real meaning-makers and visionaries of our time, it is possible that 
the painful centuries-long hiatus in human connection with the 
universe will end."  As someone who paints, this is a subject I've 
thought about for many years in relationship to the MOQ.

But here's my question.  This book is based upon a history of Western 
cosmology (For example, I could find in the book no reference to 
Buddhism.) and it's relationship with science.  Does anyone know of a 
book relating the Buddhist philosophy specifically to modern 
scientific discoveries?  It seems to me that in a global world, to 
explore only Western thought is lacking. Or would all such discussion 
from a Buddhist point-of-view be meaningless because it could only be 
a discussion built on conventional truth?

Sometimes (not always) it seems that painting is the raft on which I 
do my sideways drifting.

Marsha