THE LIGHT BEYOND REALITY
From Suhrawardi’s Philosophy of Light to the Mysteries of Quantum PhysicsBy Dr. Sam Irani
Length1h 43m
About this audiobook
A twelfth-century Persian philosopher believed the universe itself was made of light, and that the deepest kind of knowing comes not from argument but from direct, immediate presence, the same certainty you feel when you're in pain, unexplained and undeniable. Centuries later, quantum physics found a universe just as strange: particles that refuse to be only waves or only points, distant particles that seem to answer for each other, observation itself changing what gets found. The Light Beyond Reality follows this old question, what does it actually mean to know something, from Suhrawardi's short, remarkable life through the strangest corners of modern physics, written with warmth, honesty, and real wonder by someone who has spent years living inside both worlds. Never mysticism dressed up as science, and never science flattened into metaphor, it's a careful, personal exploration of light, presence, and the limits of what any of us can really know.
Audiobook details
GenrePhilosophy, Science and Nature
Length1 hr 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 2, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction
3Chapter One: The Man Who Spoke of Light
4Chapter Two: Knowing Without Explaining
5Chapter Three: A World Between Two Worlds
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6Chapter Four: When Matter Started Acting Strange
7Chapter Five: The Observer Is Not What You Think
8Chapter Six: A Distance That Isn't Simple Anymore
9Chapter Seven: Old Questions in New Words
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