From reading Einstein and of him his greatest view was that the universe was reasonable: it could be reasoned out as it all worked. His greatest dilemma after Relativity was seeing that there was little connection between the Quantum and Relativity, he did not like that and said that God did not play dice with the Universe. His last years were spent trying to reconcile the two views – where relativity makes rational the large scale, quantum physics brings indeterminancy into the smallest scale. Yet both exist and inter-work in the same universe, they are not separate realms and for physicists and cosmologists trying to find how it all does work together becomes the fascinating journey in and of itself.
Einstein could not reconcile the two views of the universe via mathematics and physics. For the greatness of Relativity his Grand Unified Theory did not come to him nor those that followed and none can denigrate him for that work even if it failed. As we come to understand the quantum view we see new vistas that open up before us and, strangely, ones based on reasoning through what that view means. If, truly, one word brought the universe into being it is a word of reason, of forethought, of decision as a chaotic muster would lead to ever present chaos. And yet chaos has a part of our world at its smallest basis, yet reason is built atop it. If that be grandeur from a single word then it makes all later words pale in comparison: it was a complex and deep word to make things that way.
If there was no word, if the universe exists as random part of chaos given order by chance, then understanding that, too, is deeply important. Even better it is the *exact same quest* as looking at a universe from a single word of reason, as our place in such a universe is based on how we comprehend and deal with what surrounds us. It is in that understanding and appreciation of it that we learn the limits of who we are, what we can do and what we should do. A universe sans creator requires us to understand those limits and that there are good and bad outcomes to decisions and reason through them… just like in one of a single word of reason with single creator.
Just as with liberty we set aside perfect liberty, where each has no law above them save that of Nature red in tooth and claw, and reach out for commonality between our fellow man. That requires reasoning and accountability for our place in that relationship. A relationship balanced between perfect order and no liberty and perfect liberty with no order. Between those extremes we live and balance and think through our lives and with those around us… just as we do between the quantum and cosmological, our place is between those and our meaning is in that balancing.
And even if we get some GUT theory that describes things well, the questions *that* will raise, like relativity and quantum work before it, will open up vistas we cannot now imagine… and open up new questions about our place in this realm of being, too.
