Werner Heisenberg and others

 Furthermore, as Werner Heisenberg remarks, the increasing contribution of eastern scientists from India, China and Japan, among others, reinforces this conjunction. Physical science has now become planetary and draws into its fold an increasing number of non-westerners who find in its new vision of the universe many elements that are quick to note, one cannot always distinguish between statements made by eastern metaphysics based on mystical insight, and the pronouncements of modern physics based on observations, experiments and mathematical calculations.

The new picture of the universe presented to us by contemporary physics is baffling. Contrary to classical science, physics now states that the commonsensical world we live in simply does not exist; all our impressions of ultimate solid substances are deceptive. The scientific revolution has shattered our previous notions of physical reality and natural law. Space, time, energy, matter and causality have all acquired entirely new meanings.

The first item to go was the sharp and absolute separation between space and time. Einstein's Special and General Theories of Relativity have now joined them together into a four-dimension continuum lacking the Newtonian universal flow of time. Different observers will see events occurring in different temporal sequences according to their respective positions and velocities. As the eminent and Nobel Prize-winning Japanese physicist Hideki Yukama states it, "Here time resolves itself into the fourth dimension, on a par with space, where harmony prevails in an eternal state of rest. One may sense something close to the Oriental outlook."