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Full Idea
Once we understood the fundamental laws that govern forces of nature at its smallest scales, all of these current mysteries would be revealed as natural consequences of these laws.
Gist of Idea
An understanding of the most basic physics should explain all of the subject's mysteries
Source
Lawrence M. Krauss (A Universe from Nothing [2012], 08)
Book Ref
Krauss,Lawrence M.: 'A Universe from Nothing' [Simon and Schuster 2012], p.122
A Reaction
This expresses the reductionist view within physics itself. Krauss says the discovery that empty space itself contains energy has led to a revision of this view (because that is not part of the forces and particles studied in basic physics).
| 21105 | In 1676 it was discovered that water is teeming with life [Krauss] |
| 21104 | General Relativity: the density of energy and matter determines curvature and gravity [Krauss] |
| 21107 | Uncertainty says that energy can be very high over very short time periods [Krauss] |
| 21106 | Most of the mass of a proton is the energy in virtual particles (rather than the quarks) [Krauss] |
| 21108 | The universe is precisely 13.72 billion years old [Krauss] |
| 21109 | Space itself can expand (and separate its contents) at faster than light speeds [Krauss] |
| 21110 | An understanding of the most basic physics should explain all of the subject's mysteries [Krauss] |
| 21111 | It seems likely that cosmic inflation is eternal, and this would make a multiverse inevitable [Krauss] |
| 21112 | Empty space contains a continual flux of brief virtual particles [Krauss] |