Life, The Universe, And Everything? Don’t Hold Your Breath.

Some prominent scientists believe that modern physics is quite close to being able to announce a Grand Unified Theory of Everything – multiply the Big Bang Theory by a couple of million and you’ve got the general idea. However, a new book argues that, while science has made undeniably great strides in the understanding of our universe in recent decades, no one is even remotely close to having a complete understanding of the way in which all of reality is bound together. The book also argues that the popular “string theory” of quantum physics is completely wrongheaded, and seems to suggest that much of what is now assumed to be fact in quantum mechanics doesn’t quite jive with reality. Meanwhile, the universe continues to exist, against all logic and reason…