The name Quantum Tao was chosen as it combines two terms that represents two ideas that are both mordern and ancient. Taoism, as a philosophical idea, dates back to ancient China, but the ideas inherent in Taoism are as relevant now as they were when Lao Tzu first described them. Quantum mechanics has seems a very modern idea, but the modern understanding actually dates back the ancient Greeks, who first propsed that matter was really just a form of energy and that both were in fact the same. However Quantum Mechanics really gained momentum, as an idea, at the turn of the last century and has, sinse its inception, thrown into doubt everything that we 'thought' we knew about what reality really is....
"A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement. Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated ‘basic building blocks’, but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole."
'On Quantum Theory'
The Tao of Physics - Fritjof Capra
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