They are attempts to achieve the “theory of everything” that eluded Einstein—to reconcile the great puzzle that how the world works at the cosmic level does not cohere with how we understand its workings at the micro level, the quantum realm. But quantum physics, whose tenets Einstein compared to voodoo, has given us cell phones and personal computers, technologies of the everyday by which we populate online versions of outer space.
this is the seminal question of my life
