{"id":966,"date":"2018-01-01T08:06:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T08:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dongpingzhang.com\/?p=966"},"modified":"2018-01-28T01:10:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T01:10:24","slug":"the-theory-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dongpingzhang.com\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"The Theory of Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

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During the holiday break, I read <\/span>Stephen Hawking<\/span><\/a>\u2019s <\/span>The Theory of Everything<\/span><\/i>. Reading this book was excruciatingly agonising. If not for the awesome Christmas dinner my friends Marilena and Kostas cooked for our big group of Greek friends, and the wonderful Yorkshire <\/span>Bettys<\/span><\/a> tea and Christmas cake supplied, along with plates, teacups, classical music and a comfy sofa, by dear friends Angela and John, and many miles of hiking, running and biking, I might have lost sanity a little bit. This book stirred up so many questions in me about black holes, the universe, God(s?), our existence and so on. You could almost insert a why question after every single sentence in this book. That is how I pleasantly suffered through reading it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Can there really be a unified theory of everything? Or are we just chasing a mirage? There seem to be three possibilities:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n