Theoretical physicist Heinrich Päs revisits the pre-Socratic view that ‘all is one’. Sometimes termed monism, it considers everything in the universe to be part of an indivisible whole, rather than seeing protons, atoms and so forth as separate phenomena. Blending history, science, theology and philosophy, he argues that instead of searching for a reductive explanation of quantum particles and their interactions, modern science could benefit from a more holistic view.
In The One, particle physicist Heinrich Pas presents a bold idea: fundamentally, everything in the universe is an aspect of one unified whole.
This idea, called monism, has a rich 3,000-year history: Plato believed that 'all is one', but monism was later rejected as irrational and suppressed as a heresy by the medieval Church. Nevertheless, monism persisted, inspiring Enlightenment science and Romantic poetry.
Pas shows how monism could inspire physics today, how it could slice through the intellectual stagnation that has bogged down progress in modern physics and help science achieve the 'grand theory of everything' that 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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