![]() ![]() We need the mathematics underlying QM to make sense of matter, space and time. QM, which holds that all matter and energy exist as interchangeable waves and particles, has delivered computers, smartphones, nuclear energy, laser scanners and arguably the best-confirmed theory in the entirety of science. This worldview also follows in straightforward fashion from the findings of quantum mechanics (QM), the uncanny physics of subatomic particles that departs from the classical physics of Isaac Newton and experience in the everyday world. The ancient Egyptians believed in an all-encompassing but elusive unity symbolised by the goddess Isis, often portrayed with a veil and worshipped as ‘all that has been and is and shall be’ and the ‘mother and father of all things’. ![]() ![]() ![]() Heraclitus wasn’t the first, nor the last, to advocate the idea. He was describing monism, the ancient idea that all is one – that, fundamentally, everything we see or experience is an aspect of one unified whole. ‘From all things One and from One all things,’ wrote the Greek philosopher Heraclitus some 2,500 years ago. ![]()
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