Einstein was working on the ultimate formula for everything before he died, do you think there is such a thing
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There is no such thing as a universal law. Even laws of physics we take for granted here on Earth do not necessarily hold true in other reference frames.\n\nThinking we can explain everything through science is supreme arrogance of the type that borders on religion. I don't believe in God, but I recognize that science is not a replacement for faith. It can't solve all our problems, and wouldn't be any fun if it could. We will never know it all, and that's the way it should be. To claim that there is one universal scientific truth that lays all the mysteries of existence bare is no different than simply attributing all unknowns to a deity.
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Funny!  I agree.  Sure, it's the answer to "everything," but do we HAVE to use it for the answer to everything?  LOL!
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he could have easily said that because if you work in binary math 1+1 doesn't = 2, 1+1=1.\n\nPS I don't know for a fact if Einstein actually said it or not, but it is possible
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It certainly sounds like something Bohr would have said to Einstein.  Great Quote!
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Everyone and everything was made by God. Look around you. Do you think that everything could be how it is without God? There is an obvious creator for everything to fit like it does.
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i think it is a theory of physics that doesn't exist yet but is the ultimate goal of physicists. the problem is that rules of physics don't apply to all things.. like there is the regular everyday physics like Newton's gravity, cause & effect, etc. then Einstein figured out relativity and added time as a factor to the picture. so physical properties of a thing in the universe depends on the perspective of the observer. if something (thing 'a') is moving it changes the way it acts in relation to thing 'b', which isn't moving, or is moving faster or slower... 'relative' rules. even einstein got upset though, when people were able to look at tiny things, subatomic particles, and found they didn't act according to the rules of the big world. they had their own rules of interaction. rules of science should apply to all things, or they aren't really very good at explaining the world, so einstein and every scientist since has been looking for a theory of physics that 'unifies' the universe; both big and small. a set of rules of physics that you can say, yes that's what will happen if  this happens, either to a person or a subatomic particle. this all gets mushed up in the idea that understanding the universal rules will give us an idea of how the universe began..like the first seconds of the universe which is another obsession for scientists. so that's why it's called the grand unification theory. it would unify all the theories into one that applies all the time to all things. but it doesn't exist yet. look up stuff on stephen hawkings theories and maybe string theory for some neat ideas
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According to modern physics, yes. Any infinite universe would actually contain an infinite amount of data, and thus would be aware of its own existence as well.If, however, you define universe as 'infinite' or 'everything' then no.
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Ask Einstein, the famous E=mc2 formula directly relates to your question.
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according to enistin yes\nthats how he came up with the equation e = mc^2 because he asked him self how would light look if you traveled at the speed of light
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I certainly believe he would eventually have come to a conclusive resolution to the problem because Western Science as well as Eastern Philosophy are being unified in the same way, by accepting the importance of intuitive thinking as a complementary element in relation to logical thinking in getting to T/truth/s.  Eastern thought has intuitively understood universal/existential truths for thousands of years longer than Western scientific deductive reasoning has allowed Western civilization to understand those same universalities.  Math and Philosophy are unifying because the universe is unifying.  Let me give you an example I got from a book called The Tao of Physics.  It provided philosophical proof that because of the elemental nature of the universe it is possible to travel in time, and then the author proved it using mathematical formulas provided by Western Science to support truth that had been formulated over a thousand years ago.  This is what I mean when I say they are unifying.  And, I believe Einstein would have come to his conclusions in the same way because so many of his colleagues were beginning to become involved in the study of Eastern philosophy as a viable approach to understanding the nature of the universe.\n\nNow, understand that I am not a physicist by any stretch of the imagination. I am an English professor by trade and a scholar by heart.  But, everything I have read over the years about this issue among many others having to do with the nature of reality and its relationship to our omniverses points in this direction.  Yet, I'm still afraid I am being more intuitive than I am being logical.  As a Libra, it satisfies my nature though, to come to believe these kinds of things the way I come to believe them.\n\nIt's not much of a mathematical answer, but it is an answer of sorts.  I hope it gives peace and contentment to you.\n\nCC Ryder
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You're right--Einstein was the champion of that idea for many years.
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the formulas are what convince me.  I've had to derive so many complicate formulas myself, and most of them, especially mechanics formulas can be proven, such as measuring a quantities, solving for a missing variable, then doing an experiment and getting the same answer.  This is too much to be a coincedence or something.  Most theories and things are developed before formulas and actual mathamatical relationships are found, then they find them and it all fits together nicely.  Even with reletivity and things with spacetime, there are a lot of concrete formulas, and once you have the satisfaction of deriving them yourself from previously proven formulas... it all clicks nicely, that's why im a physics major, curiosity about everything like this.  I guess human perception can be valid once connections start being made between things, because when ideas are incorrect, they really don't connect to other things very easily.
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Einstein was an atheist and also believed Humans were made up of so much energy that although the human body will die our energy can continue on.  \n\nSo to answer your question, if there is anything after this life I'd agree with Einstein over some silly book written by a group of morons who thought the world was flat and the sun revolved around the flat earth.
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You're asking a very complicated question using very simplified terms. And yes, given enough time and mathmatics we CAN calculate every aspect of the known and unknown universe. The only problem is, is that we don't understand much at all of the known universe. Not even electricity or what causes Electromotive Force. We have theories, but thats all we have. Einstein spent the rest of his life at Princeton trying to produce the "Theory of Everything". P.S. His Nobel didn't come from his paper on "relativity". Every microsecond or better results in somethings repeating themselves and other things not. Hence "Chaos Theory"! But what really can be counted on at this point are things called "Physical Laws of the Universe", which may change at a given moment. It's good mental masturbation. Try reading the Tao of Physics, if you can find a copy.
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I think Isaac Newton might have been as good, considering the limitations of his own time. Just remember he had to develop a new whole math to support his theories! (calculus) Then I dunno, but today Stephen Hawking? Have you read a brief history of time and the universe in a nutshell? I dunno, really, Einstein was GREAT!
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Yup, relativity and qunatum mechanics work together nicely.  You'll need to account for the switch to using spacetime quantities instead of space and time quantities, and the fundemental equations get kind of hairy, but they still work out fine.
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The formula expanded a bit is: E (joules or kg*m²/s²) = m (kilograms) multiplied by (299,792,458 m/s)2\n\nE is Energy, m is mass and c is the speed of light in a vacuum.  \n\nCheck out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%3Dmc%C2%B2\n\nOff the subject, but an important reply to Fresh Prince and those of the same mind:\n\nYou seem pretty mad.  It is unfortunate that "[we] people disgust [you]."  It does not diminish Einstein’s discovery to say God created the highly balanced universe which is made up of this mathematic formula as well as all formulas - discovered and undiscovered.  Einstein was doing wonderful work in unlocking the mysteries of Creation - he was a genius among geniuses\n\nEinstein himself believed in a "god / creator" - not the God of the Bible, but a Creator nonetheless.  He was not closed - he acknowledged that the universe is so finely balanced on finite mathematical principals, there is a higher intelligence governing things that we cannot comprehend.  He spent his life exploring the wonder of what has been created and set before mankind.  Please cast aside your disgust.  No one is taking credit away from Einstein - or you.  \n\nRegarding religion, Einstein said: "The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavor in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that is there."\n\nWhen asked: "[Do] You accept the historical Jesus?" \n\nHe replied: "Unquestionably! No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life."\n\nNo, Einstein did not believe in God as Christians believe.  But he recognized the order of the universe as a signpost to a higher being.  The point is, there is no cause to be "disgusted" by ideas outside your paradigm.  I am not disgusted with you.\n\nTake a hint from Einstein - the consummate scientist who believed in a Creator: "...science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."  I will not be blind, so please do not be the former.  Take a look from another perspective; you may learn something of value.\n\nRemember, you may be angry with God, deny God, ignore God, and not care to inquire with an open mind, but God loves you anyway.\n\nHave a blessed day, my friend (that is a positive statement, please take it as such).