There is no material substance in the subatomic world it’s a world of dynamic patterns, continually changing into one another.” Over the past three decades, he has been engaged in a systematic exploration of the social and cultural implications of this transformation. As he said on “Voices” in London in 1984: “For the modern physicist, the material world is no longer a mechanic system made of separate objects, but rather appears as a complex web of relationships that include the human observer and his or her consciousness. Recognizing the significance of this emerging worldview for social as well as scientific systems, Capra regards the paradigm shift in modern physics as a precursor to transformation in our cultural and social paradigms as well. Four decades later, The Tao of Physics is still in print in more than 40 editions worldwide. He is author of the 1975 best-seller The Tao of Physics, which explored the parallels between modern physics and Eastern mysticism, and how modern physics was changing our mechanistic worldview to a holistic and ecological worldview. They may lead us-to put it in extreme terms-to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.” - Fritjof Capra, from The Turning Pointįritjof Capra, Ph.D., is an Austrian-born American physicist and systems theorist. “ Scientists … are responsible for their research not only intellectually but also morally….he results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue.
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