The Universe in One Atom: Science and Spirituality in the Service of the World. 3. Emptiness, relativity and quantum physics
One of the most striking results of the development of science is the change in our understanding of the structure of the world in the light of new discoveries. For example, physics is still trying to get used to the new scientific paradigm that arose at the beginning of the 20th century. as a result of the emergence of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. Scientists and philosophers are now forced to constantly deal with two conflicting models of reality – the classical Newtonian model, which assumes the mechanistic and complete predictability of all events in the Universe, and the relativism of quantum mechanics, which introduces the principle of uncertainty into the understanding of the world. The application of this second model to understanding the everyday reality around us has not yet been fully clarified.