which these laws do not apply, but at the levels of cosmology on the one hand and the subatomic levels at the other, these laws do not apply. Quantum theory demolished the idea of solid objects and of strictly deterministic laws of nature:
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 (68).
Quantum theory helped explain a number of anomalies noted by earlier models. The nature of matter itself was changed by quantum theory, and the creation of material particles from pure energy "is certainly the most spectacular effect of relativity theory" (77). The way particles interact on the quantum level is different from what we see with colliding bodies in the mid-level space in which we live.
Having considered the development of the New Physics, Capra next turns to the nature of E
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