Abstract
The 20th century has been a period of scientific revolution, unmatched in scope by anything that has come before, save perhaps the Copernican revolution in the 16th century. Ever since Newtonian physics was overthrown at the beginning of this century we have been living through a period of transition, during which the new theory that will replace Newtonian physics as a unified framework for the description of everything in nature has been steadily coming into focus. Big pieces of this theory have been discovered, such as relativity quantum theory the Standard Model of particle physics, and the standard big-bang cosmology But it is very clear that we do not yet have the full theory, because that must be based on a single theoretical framework, and such a framework is still lacking. Thus, as humanity emerges into a new century, the completion of the new theory that will finally replace Newtonian physics remains the primary goal of theoretical physics.

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