ALBERT EINSTEIN once said: “The most incomprehensible thing about the Universe is that it is comprehensible.” The Universe is unbelievably large and contains an unthinkable number of things. Yet we can model much of its history, account for its structure, predict its future and understand the behaviour of a bewildering variety of the objects it contains. We can do this because we understand that everything is bound together by a web of relationships. We call them the laws of physics.
But why these laws, and not others? Einstein dedicated the final decades of his life to a search for a…
