A particle physicist makes the scientific case for an ancient idea about the nature of the universe: that all is One.
Heinrich Ps is a German theoretical physicist and professor at TU
Dortmund University. He received a PhD from the University of
Heidelberg for research at the Max-Planck-Institut in 1999, held
postdoc appointments at Vanderbilt University and the University of
Hawaii, and an Assistant Professorship at the University of
Alabama. His research on particle physics, cosmology and the
structure of space and time was on the cover of the Scientific
American and the New Scientist magazine. It also got included in
the collector's edition "Ultimate Physics: From Quarks to the
Cosmos", next to a piece by Stephen Hawking.
His first book "The Perfect Wave" dealt with neutrinos - the most
puzzling particles we know about. It was praised in The Wall Street
Journal, Nature, Economist, Publisher's Weekly, ZEIT, Welt and
Deutschlandfunk.
His new book "The One" makes the scientific case for an ancient
idea about the nature of the universe: that all is One. 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.
'[A] heady mix of history, philosophy and cutting-edge theory that
is fascinating, provocative ... stimulating and engrossing.' ? Wall
Street Journal
'The history is thoroughly researched, the physics is cutting edge
and Ps's larger point resonates: much, or maybe all, of what we
take for reality is an artifact of our limited perspectives.' ?
Scientific American
'It has always been the dream of philosophers to have all matter
built up from one fundamental type of particle," said Paul Dirac in
1930. With expert guidance from Heinrich Ps, in The One we glimpse
the scale and grandeur of the dream in one of its modern forms:
everything is quantum information.' ? Jim Baggott, author of Atomic
and Quantum Reality
'Usually we say the universe is made of particles, but Ps 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
'Are we one with the universe? It is a question as old as mankind
... But Ps 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, physicist and
author of Existential Physics
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