M-theory is the unified theory Einstein was hoping to find.
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Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.
We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece.
It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students.
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.
Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.
I had a difficult time getting my arms around Einstein's work, even when I was a physics major at one of the top universities in India.
Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.