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"I have long held an opinion... that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin; or, in other words, are so directly related and mutually dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, one into another, and possess equivalents of power in their action." -Michael Faraday
Our goal is precisely to challenge, indeed to threaten, our previous understanding. But what we know is true will still be true 1,000 years from now.
Theoretical physicist Vijay Balasubramanian discusses the 75th anniversary of the alpha-beta-gamma paper, what we know—and don’t know—about the universe and the “very big gaps” left to discover.
General Relativity (GR) is immensely successful. With the late discovery of gravitational waves from black hole and neutron star mergers, it has passed all the tests with flying colors. But so far, all observations have mainly tested the vacuum equations of GR.
"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size." -Oliver Wendell Holmes