Little Things That Jiggle Week 2 Post 4

The quote by Leon Lederman at the very beginning of the movie is pretty funny, but I think it's quite meaningful at the same time.  Will physics ever get to a point where the entire universe can be summed down to one tiny formula, given it's complexity and enormous size?  I doubt it, especially because of the fact that as disciplines become more complicated, they begin to delve into other disciplnes, creating never-ending amounts of questions.  Of course, though, summing everything down into simpler terms is always a worthy goal.

 

             Another interesting quote in the film was one by Einstein: “It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid”.  This goes hand in hand with the other quote, that things should be simple enough in physics that you could tell basically anyone them.  Of course Einstein would say this after he creats the famous “E=mc²“ formula.  Once people have figured out how everything is interrelated in terms of forces, molecules, and what not, only then is it possible to find the easiest way to express how something works.