A prototype Theory Of Everything

Click your way through the paradigm for 21'st century physics

Two great theories are the foundation of modern physics. General relativity describes the large scale of the world such as stars and galaxies. Quantum theory descibes the very small such as atoms and electrons. Combining these two into a single theory is not a trivial task.
As these subjects has developed in the recent years there is perhaps a common base for these theories by formulating them with closed one-dimensional objects.
Mathematicians have discovered a connection between non-euclidean geometry and knot theory that are manifested in complement spaces (of knots) that can be generated by objects such as the Borromean rings that you see on the small image of the 'paradigm button'. Such a complement space would look like the picture presented on the preceding page. ( These pictures can be admired on Geometry Center in their full splendor) Meanwhile particle physicists have speculated about using strings to model elementary particles to bystep a problem known as 'inconsistent renormalisation' that pops up when solving Feynman diagrams.