ABSTRACT
The scientific worldview is based on the assumption that the world is made up of individual elements that relate to each other through laws that can be discovered in scientific inquiry. Classical physics views the universe as composed of discrete particles that operate mechanistically and deterministically following universal laws of motion and gravity. The view of the passive scientific observer is thus challenged by a view of science as participatory. The scientific observer is involved in what is being observed as quantum theory discovered. The classical conception of matter where subatomic particles have a location at a time and a momentum at every moment of time collapses with the discovery of indeterminacy, where the particles do not have a precise location and momentum. The traditional or classical scientific worldview is alive and well in society and constitutes the way most people think about most aspects of life and the nature of existence.
