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General Relativity Is The Cornerstone Of Cosmology And Astrophysics. It Has Also Provided The Conceptual Basis For String Theory And Other Attempts To Unify All The Forces Of Nature In Terms Of Geometrical Structures.

The Question Not Many Ask Is: Why Are The Laws Of Physics Like They Are?

We Could Tell Them [alien Civilization] Things That We Have Discovered In The Realm Of Mathematical Physics, But There Is Stuff That I Would Like To Know. There Are Some Famous Problems Like How To Bring Gravitation And Quantum Physics Together, The Long-sought-after Theory Of Quantum Gravity. But It May Be Hard To Understand The Answer That Comes Back.

An Argument Often Given For Why Earth Couldn't Host Another Form Of Life Is That Once The Life We Know Became Established, It Would Have Eliminated Any Competition Through Natural Selection. But If Another Form Of Life Were Confined To Its Own Niche, There Would Be Little Direct Competition With Regular Life.

Science May Explain The World, But We Still Have To Explain Science. The Laws Which Enable The Universe To Come Into Being Spontaneously Seem Themselves To Be The Product Of Exceedingly Ingenious Design. If Physics Is The Product Of Design, The Universe Must Have A Purpose, And The Evidence Of Modern Physics Suggests Strongly To Me That The Purpose Includes Us