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was in search of a "Unified Field Theory” explaining the non-duality of the four basic forms in which energy mani. fests itself, i.e. as gravitational, electromagnetic, weak and strong nuclear forces. While Einstein himself could not see the consummation of the grand synthesis he was searching for, the exploration of physicists into the sub-atomic universe since the War seemed to bring about such a grand synthesis (of reality) a distinct possibility.
During the post-war decades, especially during the seventies and the eighties, physics has been able to make considerable progress in discovering and predicting seemingly ceaseless micro-families of sub-atomic particles existing beyond physics's current observational range. Beyond the relatively stable particles of the nucleus, thus we reach ever minutes layers and ranges of unstable particles (photon, lepton. harron, baryon, meson families) living for less than a millionth of a second. They are being constantly created and annihilated within the time-space of 'particle seconds' that they can exist only at a level of the ontological reality which is just conceptual (conceptual here does not mean imaginary). In other words, they do not exist outside the consciousness of the observing Subject. And in a certain way they do respond to the will of the observing mind, which has the choice of measuring any particle in terms of their mass or of their movement.
If Newton conceived reality as absolute and Einstein saw it as relative, we are now approaching a new radical view of it. It is the emerging vision of Reality as CONSCIOUSNESS. As per this Consciousness vision of reality, it is neither absolute nor relative, but participatory. We live in a universe which is participatory, i.e. man shapes his evolution and destiny as a participant-participant of the divine act of creation.
Hence the future explorations of physics is but the exploration not of matter, but of Consciousness. In Cons. ciousness matter and spirit, God and man, subject and object achieve their grand non-dual synthesis.
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