Sunday, May 3, 2015

The Unified Field Theory

Dr. Wilbur Danforth, professor and reclusive scientist, had spent a lifetime searching for the Unified Field Theory, the Holy Grail of physics.  Such a theory would seal the deal on science's understanding of how everything worked.  The whole shebang.  The theory would unite gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces within the atom.

At the age of seventy-one, Wilbur fell in love, got married, and left his scientific pursuits.  His lovely bride was named Alice, whose gentle touch dispelled Wilbur's lifelong loneliness, his winters of discontent.  In doing so, he discovered the Unified Field Theory, which could be described in a word: lovingkindness.  He published his results in a final nod to academia since he thought people should know of such an astounding discovery.  He was universally ridiculed.

The criticism didn't bother Wilbur in the least.  When he waltzed with Alice, he knew exactly what held everything together.

by William Hammett

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