Tuesday, August 22, 2006

The Quest

Physicists search in vain for the "theory of everything." General relativity works on the cosmic scale; quantum mechanics works on the sub-atomic scale; neither theory cn be adapted to handle both scales. General relativity predicted the existence of black holes and the Big Bang but it cannot tell what happens at the center of a black hole or at the moment of the Big Bang. The theory breaks down at such tiny scales. The search goes on.

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