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Einstein wrote his great field equation,
and a revolution began in the realm of Science. After a long and tedious
8 years’ effort, this one man errand came to an end, and hence
did end the traditional attitude of people towards Science. Einstein’s
equation uprooted everything in Science that was created out of common
sense. Things like length contraction & time dilation in special
relativistic framework or in gravitational field, constancy and finiteness
of signal transfer, unification of space and time were some of the mind-boggling
surprises which seemed to defy our sense perception. |
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| Human activity was
reduced to just a mere first order approximation of the grandeur frame
work ofthe universe. And, one needed just a piece of paper, a pencil
and a coagulation of neurons to unveil the secrets of natural laws. But,
surprises were still to arrive. In 1925, a young artist made a square
box with some e’s and i’s in it (placed in a regular pattern)
and created a Science where a die decided the fate of everything. There
is a non-zero probability that it was Heisenberg’s mind that did
it. And then evolved a theory where indeterminism played the master role.
As a consequence of further research, the Quantum theory became the first
theory where conscious mind played a vital role in framing cosmos. |
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Relativity and Quantum theory have developed into
two great masterpieces of Science. They describe the universe perfectly
in their own jurisdiction. Both these theories are extremely successful
and have worked very well upon all expectations. But things are still
incomplete. Imagine giving a physics exam where the answers to all questions
are single, a homogenous (heterogeneous for laymen) mixtures of weird
symbols, separated by a seemingly familiar ‘equal to’ sign.
Everyone would make a perfect score. It is this answer that the whole
Physics community is searching for - The Unified Field Theory, a single
medicine for all troubles. Einstein was the first man (quite usually)
who gave the concept of a unified picture of the universe. Since then,
all the
giant minds of this
planet have jumped into this greatest adventure for the search for the ‘ultimate
truth’. Stephen Hawking calls this endeavour reading God’s
Mind. Whole elementary research in Physics will come to an end after
the discovery of this law and humans will have every tool that could
describe the behaviour of observed data, lest new surprises arise. So,
what is it all about? Is just the unification of gravity and quantum
mechanics the only requirement, or are there more troubles to be removed?
In this website, you will learn about the great discoveries starting
from Newtonian era to the present, the unification theories and the troubles
faced by them. You will also come across some philosophical challenges
in Science and troubles in understanding how quantum things work. |
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So, get ready to be drawn into a world where things
mean more than just formulas and equations and where everything is magical,
but only for those who have learnt to appreciate the elegance of Science
or want to learn so. |
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