The Science of Everything

The Science of Everything refers to a fundamental problem in science since the early 20th century. Albert Einstein was preoccupied with it for most of his later life. It has been a challenge which Stephen Hawking has grappled with. Put very simply, the problem in physics involves integrating Einstein's theory of gravitation -- which describes space, time, and matter on the vast scale of the whole universe from planets to galaxies -- with quantum mechanics, which deals with the smallest poss...