ABSTRACT
Space and time are influenced by the observer’s state of motion and can warp and curve in response to mass and energy. All is change, and nothing stays still long enough to be captured statically in thought. In a very real sense we come to know both the physical and human world by the way they change and in accordance with a variety of theoretical explanatory frameworks that stipulate what count as facts. Since Einstein there has been a frantic search within the scientific community to find a theory that would cope with this and explain everything. A successful discovery would be something so fundamental that it would reconcile the incompatibilities of general relativity and its explanation of the big, and quantum mechanics and its explanation of the small. Scientists now think they may have found this scientific Holy Grail. It is called string theory, and reduces the explanation of everything to tiny vibrating loops of ‘string’. This, if true, would be the final form of reductionism.
