Stephen Battersby, writing for the New Scientist, summarizes recent research on quarks and the quest for matter. “Matter is built on flaky foundations,” he says. “Physicists have now confirmed that the apparently substantial stuff is actually no more than fluctuations in the quantum vacuum.” Read the story here.
In a recent Shambhala Sun story on Mind, Matter or God, senior editor Barry Boyce reports on the ‘middle way’ of embracing both reason and the reality beyond it.