10,000 years old or 5 years old?

I have always been an avid student of oriental philosophy and very interested in physics.
The two are not contradictory.
10,000 years ago the Taoist were drawing pictures of what they called the basic element.
They drew an atom.
If you read modern physics (I don’t claim to understand it … physicist don’t either) it reads
much more like philosophy than mechanics.
When contradictions become the rule I become much more comfortable with the world.