Many things have changed since I decided to study on this subject, and I assure you, changed for the better, I am very happy with what I am doing, with the new discoveries, but much happier to be finding the answers I have sought throughout my life. They will be commented on in the following pages ... for sure!
For the first time, I have not been able to put with my words a conclusion of something that I am reading, studying, what I will describe next, as well as being a complex subject, it is very extensive, it would take me a long time to put together an idea and do not distort its content, I need to get the right message, the basis of everything must be intact. As I'm reading Fritjof Capra's book, most of the words will be his.
But let's do it!
Modern physics has exerted a great influence on almost every aspect of human society.
Today, practically all sectors of industrial activity use the results of atomic physics; In addition, the influence of its results on the political structure of the world through its application via atomic weapons is well known. However, the influence of modern physics surpasses technology, extending to the realm of thought and culture.
The exploration of the atomic and subatomic world in the twentieth century has revealed an unsuspected limitation of classical ideas, leading to a radical revision of many of our basic concepts. The concept of matter in subatomic physics, for example, is totally different from the traditional idea of a material substance as we find in Classical Physics. The same observation can be made regarding concepts such as space, time, or cause and effect. Such concepts, nevertheless, are fundamental in our perception of the world, from its radical transformation, our perspective also came to know a process of transformation.
These transformations generated by modern physics have been widely discussed by physicists and philosophers over the last decades. However, we have rarely been aware of the fact that they all seem to lead in the same direction, that is, to a world view similar to those in Eastern mysticism. The concepts of modern physics are often surprising parallels with the ideas expressed in the Far Eastern religious philosophies. Although these parallels to date have not been extensively discussed, they have not escaped the notice of some of the great physicists of the twentieth century as they come into contact with Eastern culture at their conferences in India, China, and in Japan. Three citations below serve as an example:
The general notions about human understanding ... illustrated by the discoveries in atomic physics, are far from constituting something entirely unknown, novel, new. These notions have a history in our own culture, enjoying a more prominent and central position in Buddhist or Hindu thought. What we shall encounter is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of the old wisdom.
Julius Robert Oppenheimer the father of the Atomic Bomb, the man who led the Manhattan project scientists and who later opposed the arms race.
If we seek a parallel to the lesson of atomic theory [. . .] [we must turn to] those kinds of epistemological problems with which, in the past, thinkers such as Buddha and Lao Tzu have already met in their attempt to harmonize our position with viewers and actors in the great drama of existence.
Niels Böhr, Danish physicist who became best known for his work on the atomic structure, including receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922.
The great scientific contribution in terms of theoretical physics that has come to us from Japan since the last war may be an indication of a certain relation between the philosophical ideas present in the Far East tradition and the philosophical substance of the quantum theory.
Werner Heisenberg, a German theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932, "for the creation of quantum mechanics, whose applications led to the discovery, among others, of allotropic forms of hydrogen."
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