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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
""From all things One and from One all things," wrote the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus. You might read this as a platitude, or as a pleasant spiritual or philosophical idea. You probably wouldn't read it as a more-or-less accurate scientific statement about the nature of the universe. Particle physicist Heinrich P�as, however, does. In The One, P�as makes the surprising and compelling case for monism-the philosophical idea that one single,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A contrarian scientist wrestles with the big questions that modern physics raises, and what physics says about the human condition Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation. On the other hand, the idea that...
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