The One

How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics

The One
Heinrich Pas
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Hardback
h235 x 152mm - 368pg
17 Jan 2023 US
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9781541674851
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A particle physicist makes the scientific case for an ancient idea about the nature of the universe: that all is One In The One, particle physicist Heinrich Pas presents a bold idea: fundamentally, everything in the universe is an aspect of one unified whole. The idea, called monism, has a rich three-thousand-year history: 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. Pas 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.
"Are we one with the universe? It is a question as old as mankind, as deep as a wormhole, and as broad as the infinitely branching possibilities of the many-worlds interpretation. But Pas is ready for the challenge and delivers an original and fresh account of both the history and the science of monism. An enticing read for those who seek to understand their place in nature--and who does not? "--Sabine Hossenfelder, author of Existential Physics "Pas delivers an entertaining and enlightening tour of physics, religion, and philosophy, yielding a monistic vision of fundamental reality as a vast unified whole: The One. In place of the pluralist image of a world composed from many little particles, Pas offers an image of one entangled cosmos from which all else emerges. The result is an important new program for physics based on quantum cosmology, from which space, time, particles, and all the rest are to be derived from the universal wave function via decoherence--a new hope for our understanding of fundamental reality. "--Jonathan Schaffer, Rutgers University "Usually, we say the universe is made of particles, but Pas shows how quantum physics inverts that. The whole comes first, not the parts--the parts come from fragmenting the whole. I' ll never see reality the same way again!"--George Musser, author of Spooky Action at a Distance
Heinrich Pas is a professor of theoretical physics at TU Dortmund University in Germany. He has held positions at Vanderbilt University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Hawai' i and has conducted research visits at CERN and Fermilab. He lives in Bremen, Germany.
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ISBN-13: 9781541674851
Published: 17 Jan 2023
Published In: United States
Imprint: Basic Books
Publisher: Basic Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 235mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 30mm
Pages: 368

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