The Elegant Universe

This is a very interesting combination of information gathered by different points of views, different studies, and different theories held at different time periods.  Isaac Newton discovered the first force of nature by unifying the heavens and earth in a theory of gravity, but didn't know exactly how gravity worked.  James Clerk Maxwell came up with four mathematical equations that unified electricity and magnetism into a single force called electromagnetism, while Albert Einstein believed that all that was left to form a single theory that could envelop all the laws of the universe was to merge the idea of gravity with electromagnetism in an attempt to be gather all the information and explain it in the simplest form called unification.

The theories of Einstein and Maxwell became useless at explaining how the tiny bits of matter would interact with each other inside the atom when physicist Niels Bohr explained that atoms consisted of tinier particles, the nucleus, protons, electrons, and neutrons.  Bohr believed in Quantum Mechanics which says that everything in this world is by chance and uncertainty rules which basically says that we can only predict the probability of one outcome or another.

There is now a theory called String Theory whose goal is to bring together our understanding of everything in one set of principles using one master equation to say that all forces and all matter is made of one ingredient, tiny strings that wiggle.  It is believed that these strings are tiny vibrating strands of energy.  The only problem they are facing is that these strings are far too small to be tested which then goes to say that if something cannot be tested, it's not science, it's philosophy.  They still believe in the possibility that perhaps in the future String Theory will be proven.  Will this ever be proven?  We will never know.