Great Void Cannot but Consist of Qi

Chinese medicine has long assumed that energy and matter are interchangeable.

The Great Void cannot but consist of Qi (energy): This Qi cannot but condense to form all things: and these cannot but become dispersed so as to /on/; cm c more the Great Void.

Compare this with Einstein:
We may regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which the 'field' is extremely dense - there is no place in this new kind of physics for both the 'field' and matter, for the 'field' is the only reality.

If we substitute the 'field' for the Great Void, we have a curiously similar description. In his book, the Tao of Physics, Fritjof Capra takes a detailed look into these correspondences, giving many examples of the correlations between the discoveries of the New Physics and the ancient Chinese view of the world.

It makes exciting reading. Furthermore, the fact that the book is an inlet national bestseller suggests that this reunion of ancient and modern concepts is an idea whose time has finally come.