Albert Einstein

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle" - Albert Einstein. In this quote from Einstein, I see an underlying philosophy that I believe guides modern science: the desire to prove that nothing is a miracle, and that everything can be explained by carefully constructed mathematical equations.

I believe in mathematical equations and their ability to predict the future more than anyone else I know. Yet, I believe it was Einstein's dream of formulating a Grand Unified Theory of Everything that 'killed' him. Einstein wanted to believe that everything that humans observed can be explained perfectly by the most perfect language of human beings: Mathematics. He disbelieved that the human mind, or that human observation itself can have limitations. That I believe was the fallacy of the Great Einstein himself. For he, till his last days, was not able to accept the Uncertainity Principle or Quantum Mechanics.

Modern science now knows that there is an inherent uncertainty in everything. That God does play dice with the universe. Or atleast that he has not given the human mind the ability to predict the future perfectly. He has left room for uncertainty, that can only be resolve after events are observed. The future thus is an exciting fourth dimension, not something that can be mapped by computer simulation or equations.

Having said this, I still believe that Einstein's unfulfilled dream of finding the unified theory of everything was a dream worth dedicating a life for. String theory, quantum bounces, and all the other fancy theories that modern physics is formulating enriches our world deeply, as well as enhances our ability to build technology that makes life easier for us. My only wish to modern physics is that it should slowly try to incorporate the fact that what we observe as gravity, or light, or sound, or touch, is all in the human brain. So I feel that a unified theory of everything (from the perspective of the human brain) must include limitations and constants related to the human brain itself. And in effect, the explaination of human phenomenon itself can be soon incorporated into the mathematical equations of physics and economics.

To that dream, I too have dedicated my life to. And I too wish to tackle the problem of a unified theory of everything from the perspective of human beings and social phenomenon.