"Physics had died only the other day. Poor physics. Perhaps fifty people on earth understood it fully, but physics was over, just in time for the millennium. The rest was mopping up. The rest was funeral direction. They had found proton decay, at 1032 years, uniting the strong and weak atomic forces, giving the strongelectroweak. Then all they needed, for the Grand Unified Theory, for the Theory of Everything, was gravity. And then they got it. They got gravity. The maths were beautiful. The key to everything was this: time was a force as well as a dimension. Don't we feel time as a power, and doesn't it feel like gravity? What is it that is always pulling us back down?"
...Martin Amis, from London Fields
