For nearly a century, physicists have attempted to merge the competing ideas of the field’s titans, including Wolfgang Pauli, the first physicist to predict the existence of neutrinos (the smallest particles of matter), and Albert Einstein, who explained the curvature of space-time. The so-called “theory of everything” would reconcile the inconceivably small with the unimaginably large, providing a comprehensive understanding of the universe’s physical properties.
在决定如何促进创新又不必牺牲社会保障时，经济学家和决策者应该借鉴物理学。近一个世纪以来，物理学家试图将物理学巨擘之间针锋相对的思想统一起来，包括第一位预言中微子（最小微粒）的泡利和解释了时空曲率的爱因斯坦。所谓的“万有理论”将不可感知的微观与不可想象宏观调和起来，提供了对宇宙物理性质的全面理解。