This year — 2025 — the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John M. Martinis for their experiments that showed quantum tunneling can occur not just in atoms, but in macroscopic circuits — systems large enough to touch and hold. (NobelPrize.org)
That’s a turning point: the “weirdness” of the quantum realm is crossing the boundary into our everyday, engineered world.
Because of that milestone, quantum computing is not just a distant dream — it’s becoming a real possibility. What once seemed like a paradox in physics textbooks is now the foundation for new devices, circuits, and technologies. (Science News)
It’s from this moment of convergence — between deep quantum discovery and the edge of engineering — that The Tao of Quantum: The Meeting of Physics, Taoism, and Buddhism arises.
🌀 Where Worlds Meet
In The Tao of Quantum, I invite you on a journey through three languages of reality:
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Western science (quantum physics): We explore wave–particle duality, entanglement, tunneling, and the new frontiers of quantum computers and AI.
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Eastern philosophy (Taoism): We reflect on Yin and Yang, on balance, complementarity, and the dynamic dance of opposites.
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Eastern spiritual insight (Buddhism): We touch on Không và Có (emptiness and form), infinite worlds beyond our senses, and how existence arises in relation.
What you’ll discover is that the same paradoxes that stumped Einstein — “Is the moon there when we’re not looking?” — are mirrored in ancient wisdom.
The quantum realm doesn’t contradict spiritual insight; it whispers the same message in a new code.
🧭 Why This Book, Now?
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Because the 2025 Nobel Prize shows quantum effects are no longer the exclusive domain of the microscopic — we are entering quantum in the macroscopic realm.
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Because as quantum computing and AI draw nearer to reality, we need more than technical manuals — we need philosophical grounding.
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Because in blending science with Taoism and Buddhism, we see that knowledge and insight are not separate — they are two ways of honoring the same mystery.
“Reality is not two things to be reconciled, but one mystery to be lived.”
When you face a moonlit night, remember: the photon reaching your eye may have tunneled through invisible barriers.
And perhaps that moon — like your own awareness — is more than mere matter or empty space.
It dances in the space between what is and what is not.
If you liked this reflection, I’d be honored if you share it or join me as I unfold the chapters of The Tao of Quantum.
Let’s explore together how the deepest science and the deepest wisdom merge — and what that could mean for how we live, perceive, and wonder.
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