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EPILOGUE
In the opening words of Chapter 1 there were quotations from the book The Universe and Dr. Einstein authored by Lincoln Barnett. Now, having reached the end of this work Physics Unified, it seems appropriate to quote further from Barnett’s book:
If the fullest implications of a Unified Field Theory are sustained by the tests of the future—if the laws of quantum physics can also be derived from its equations—crucial new insights will doubtless be attained into the composition of matter, the structure of the elementary particles, the mechanics of radiation, and other eni gmas of the subatomic world. Yet these will be essentially by-products. For the great philosophical triumph of any Unified Field Theory is implicit in the first word of its title. It will carry to logical fulfillment the long course of science towards the unification of man’s concepts of the physical world.