The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism

By Fritjof Capra

“Science doesn't desire mysticism and mysticism doesn't desire technological know-how, yet guy wishes both.” —Fritjof Capra, Ph.D.
Their paths to the reality couldn't be extra different—but the superb factor is that, of their personal methods, the mystics and the scientists are studying a similar truths approximately our international. In non-technical language, without complicated arithmetic or formulae, this thought-provoking software explores the most strategies and theories of contemporary physics, the revelations coming from particle accelerators and laboratories—and compares them with the traditional tenets of Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism. within the approach, we achieve a transparent and interesting photograph of the way such doubtless disparate components of idea are eventually quests for a similar type of understanding.

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It doesn't use any confident statements, yet leaves it completely to the coed to understand the reality throughout the koans. the following we discover a amazing parallel to the paradoxical events which faced physicists at first of atomic physics. As in Zen, the reality used to be hidden in paradoxes which may now not be solved via logical reasoning, yet needed to be understood within the phrases of a brand new wisdom; the notice of the atomic truth. the trainer right here was once, after all, nature, who, just like the Zen masters, doesn't offer any statements. She simply offers the riddles. The fixing of a koan calls for a very best attempt of focus and involvement from the scholar. In books approximately Zen we learn that the koan grips the student’s center and brain and creates a real psychological deadlock, a kingdom of sustained rigidity during which the total global turns into a massive mass of doubt and wondering. The founders of quantum thought skilled the exact same scenario, defined right here such a lot vividly via Heisenberg: I bear in mind discussions with Bohr which went via many hours until very past due at evening and ended nearly in melancholy; and whilst on the finish of the dialogue I went by myself for a stroll within the neighbouring park I repeated to myself time and again the query: Can nature in all probability be so absurd because it appeared to us in those atomic experiments? every time the basic nature of items is analysed via the mind, it needs to look absurd or paradoxical. This has continually been famous via the mystics, yet has turn into an issue in technology in simple terms very lately. for hundreds of years, scientists have been trying to find the ‘fundamental legislation of nature’ underlying the good number of usual phenomena. those phenomena belonged to the scientists’ macroscopic surroundings and hence to the area in their sensory adventure. because the pictures and highbrow suggestions in their language have been abstracted from this very event, they have been adequate and sufficient to explain the average phenomena. questions on the basic nature of items have been replied in classical physics through the Newtonian mechanistic version of the universe which, a lot within the comparable manner because the Democritean version in historic Greece, diminished all phenomena to the motions and interactions of challenging indestructible atoms. The houses of those atoms have been abstracted from the macroscopic suggestion of billiard balls, and hence from sensory adventure. no matter if this suggestion may possibly truly be utilized to the realm of atoms was once now not wondered. certainly, it might no longer be investigated experimentally. within the 20th century, although, physicists have been capable of take on the query concerning the final nature of subject experimentally. With the aid of a such a lot subtle expertise they have been in a position to probe deeper and deeper into nature, uncovering one layer of topic after the opposite in look for its final ‘building blocks’. hence the lifestyles of atoms used to be demonstrated, then their materials have been discovered-the nuclei and electrons-and eventually the parts of the nucleusthe protons and neutrons-and many different subatomic debris.

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