Unify General Relativity & Quantum Theory | Stephen Hawking

[ISamson]

Hello,
I have read somewhere that the next major step in physics will be unifying general relativity with the quantum theory. Does anyone know about such? I wanted to know a bit more.
I have read about such in the book by Stephen Hawking "A Brief History of Time".
Thanks,
I.

P.S. My apologies for the wrong prefix.

 

[Gjmdp]

Does anyone know about such?

I think almost everyone in this forum knows about that.

The problem you're talking about is the most famous in modern physics. It's not Quantum Theory of Relativity, but rather Quantum Gravity, though no one really knows whether that is the right way to unify both fields. The idea is that gravity cannot be quantized, and thus it's different from the other 3 forces (Strong/Weak Nuclear force and Electromagnetism). There is String Theory and Quantum loop theory among many others. There is a lot of speculation in all this theories, and we still don't know if there is such theory exists. If that problem is solved, we may have achieved the "theory of everything".