Saif, though it might seem like an asymptote or gradual/consistent developments, rather than revolutionary breakthroughs as in our past - if there is any truth to the saying 'history repeats itself', it's to our consolation that there there was a difference of almost 250 years b/w Newton and Einstein ...

So may be our grand grand children will fall in close proximity to the next Newton or Einstein and will realize that how many assumptions of their grand grand paretns that were thought to be 'progressions' were more or less off tangents, hence beginning another new era yet another time ;)

Wonderful book and miniseries, definitely. Briane Greene is undoubtedly one of the eminent popularizers of science today.

What is striking is how Einstein contributed vastly to so many diverse areas in such a short period of time (in parcticular his miracle year).

Seems these days modern theories are less and less defined from the perspective of a particular "hero", so to speak, but rather by incremental progress by large groups of individuals. Less and less "eureka!" moments.

To borrow a term from economics and apply it to science, it seems that scientific research tends to function under the law of increasingly marginal returns --- it takes an increasing amount of effort to delve ever deeper in nature's laws. I hope it doesn't turn into an asymptote though, cuz I want to know more! :)

Rihab, i c ... i didn't look at it that way but i can see y could it be overwhelming since it deals with so many abstract concepts almost at once to draw a comprehensive picture of Einstein's universe ...

isn't it amazing though? 11 dimensions ... what i've always found myself dumbfounded about was Einstein's insight into the nature of light itself ... how in the world could one's mind even begin to grasp such a concept, is beyond me ...

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so i didn't know it was based on Green's book that's nice to know ...

It is based on Brian Green''s famous book "The elgent universe". It's a good book and worth reading. The first half can be understood with minimal knowledge of mathematics, but the other half requires competency is modern mathematics.