The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics

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In The One, particle physicist Heinrich Ps 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.

Ps 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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Hardback
ISBN13: 9781837730292
Published: February 2023

Number of pages: 368
Width: 164 mm
Height: 242 mm
Depth: 30 mm

Publisher: Icon Books