The two new books “The Quantum World of Angels” and “Life Between Axioms” by Job E.T. Puić, hitherto unknown in the English-speaking world, will surely change your view of the world we live in.
The author comes from Bosnia and Herzegovina, from the turbulent areas of the Western Balkans, where Catholicism and Orthodoxy have been fighting for supremacy for centuries. Everything was further complicated by the arrival of Islam and the Ottoman Empire, which ruled here for 500 years. The 50-year attempt of socialist (atheistic) Yugoslavia to unite these Slavic peoples ended ingloriously with the bloody war of 1991 – 1995 and the creation of 6 new states, of which only Serbia supports the Orthodox Russian influence.
In these books, the scientific, objectified image of the world is mediated by personal, subjective critical receptions. This intertwining of the objective and subjective is achieved through constant confrontation of scientific accomplishments in the fields of natural sciences, from molecular biology to quantum physics, and personal, spiritual prism on its path of maturing from doubt to belief.
– The narrative of the both titles, in its entirety, takes place between two axioms, in the field of natural sciences on one hand, and theological on the other, or, as the author logically observes, “… our worldview judgment takes place between the two beliefs – scientific and theological; Scientific postulates also bear roots in belief in themselves, i.e., judgment, not in their absolute truth or certainty.” Therefore,if a statement is always true and doesn’t need proof, it is an axiom. On the other hand, religious truths are called “dogma” and subsequently given the negative connotation.
The author presents that nowhere do we face the limits of science as in the so-called mathematically and experimentally based exact sciences. Humans do not reach the cognition of their finality which could be the first step in accepting belief in the infinite, the spiritual as the assumption of the physical or through any medium by which we come to know the world, as with the exact sciences.
The author does not refute natural sciences, but he denies the autonomy of their principles of constitution and development.
That the knowledge of God is a fundamental subject of interest in the natural sciences in the 21st century has been pointed out by many philosophers, to mention only the German Nobel laureate, physicist, and philosopher Richard Weizsacker. This paradigmatic unity of philosophy and physics in one person during the twentieth century is witnessed in a few other physicists – philosophers such as Heisenberg, Oppenheimer, and Niels Bohr. Likewise, the author’s cognitive path from a scientific fundamentalist to a believer in God, as a principle of shaping the world, is neither unusual, lonely, nor new in science.
More important than that is how the author feels on that path. Feelings of happiness, contentment, cognitive fulfillment, and metaphysical reconciliation emanate from every page of the text.
The author wants to share his excitement with us.