Unified Field Theory and the Dew of Resurrection
And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook (Levit. 23:40) After completing his masterpiece, the General Theory of Relativity in 1916, Albert Einstein spent the rest of his life working fruitlessly on unifying gravity with electromagnetism. His quest was to develop a unified field theory that would unify his General Relativity, a theory of gravity, with Maxwell's electrodynamics. To his great dismay, Einstein never succeeded in developing a unified field theory. Even more troubling, Einstein's persistent pursuit of classical unification caused him to overlook groundbreaking advancements in quantum physics—a field he helped pioneer and for which he received the Nobel Prize. Today, the focus is no longer on unifying gravity with electromagnetism but rather [...]
