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 Reference
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).