Time and space for the few.(Science)

WHEN THE DEFINITIVE history of the twentieth century is written, perhaps a thousand years from now, the two world wars will deserve a footnote apiece and there will be, I daresay, a section on putting men on the moon and another on cracking the genetic code. But there will need to be a few chapters on the really significant items: the fact that Physics discovered that the universe did not work in at all the way we had thought it did. And this happened not once but twice: once with Relativity and once with Quantum Mechanics.

The outstanding problem for the twenty-first century is that we have no reconciliation of the two conceptual revolutions each produced. Each ...