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Can There be a Theory of Everything? - 08-31-2007, 10:05 PM

"The whole evolution of our ideas about the processes of nature, with which we have been concerned so far, might be regarded as an organic development of Newton’s ideas.

But while the process of perfecting the field theory was still in full swing, the facts of heat, radiation, the spectra, radioactivity, etc., revealed a limit to the serviceableness of the whole intellectual system which today still seems to us absolutely insuperable, in spite of immense success at certain points.

Many physicists maintain - and there are weighty arguments in their favor - that in the face of these facts not merely the differential law but the law of causation itself - hitherto the fundamental postulate of all natural science, has collapsed. Even the possibility of a spatial-temporal construction, which can be unambiguously coordinated with physical events, is denied." - Albert Einstein, ESSAYS IN SCIENCE, 1934


(George Berkeley, 1710) ... lay the beginning in a distinct explication of what is meant by thing, reality, existence: for in vain shall we dispute concerning the real existence of things, or pretend to any knowledge thereof, so long as we have not fixed the meaning of those words.

"All things come out of the one and the one out of all things." - Heraclitus
"Reality is an illusion - albeit a persistent one." - Einstein
"Particles give me a headache." - Ibid
  
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