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The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics
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A particle physicist makes the scientific case for monism, the ancient idea about the universe that says, all is One In The One , particle physicist Heinrich Päs presents a bold fundamentally, everything in the universe is an aspect of one unified whole. The idea, called monism, has a rich three-thousand-year Plato believed that "all is one" before monism was rejected as irrational and suppressed as a heresy by the medieval Church. Nevertheless, monism persisted, inspiring Enlightenment science and Romantic poetry. Päs aims to show how monism could inspire physics today, how it could slice through the intellectual stagnation that has bogged down progress in modern physics and help the field achieve the grand theory of everything it has been chasing for decades. Blending physics, philosophy, and the history of ideas, The One is an epic, mind-expanding journey through millennia of human thought and into the nature of reality itself.
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"Emerging from the weird trip that fills the middle of his book, we return to safer ground as Mr."
"Serious explanations of quantum physics require close attention, so most readers will breathe a sigh of relief when Päs switches gears to deliver a history of science and religion in Western culture ..."
"Theoretical physicists might find some fascinating concepts worth considering, but lay readers are likely to be left scratching their heads."
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