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

In The One, particle physicist Heinrich Päs 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.

Päs 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.

About the author

Heinrich Päs 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.

Product details

• Authors: Heinrich Pas, Heinrich Päs
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9781837730308
• ISBN: 978-1-83773-030-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 37 mm
• Weight: 265 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; Science: general issues, popular science, SCIENCE / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Impact of science and technology on society