Chapter 10: Conclusion

Man can only imagine between the extremes of the tiniest and the vast. But the timescale and distance scale that he comes across in his scientific search are either too tiny or too vast for man to imagine or decipher it. And hence he fails to understand the truth ingrained in the heart of the atom and that same truth embedded over the stars.

It has been just 10,000 years since the earliest neolithic man began to settle and farm in earnest to the present. And what great advancements have we made in that short time span. In the beginning of the 19th century, scientists were confident that by the end of the century they would be able to explain most phenomena. Far from it, mysterious phenomena like missing mass and large scale structure of the Universe has been unveiled with no current theories to account for it.

The more we learn, the more we find there is to learn. It may be another 10,000 years before questions like "What is matter?", "What is light?", "What is gravity?" etc. are answered in their full sense. To those men of the future we may seem like neolithic men of science beginning to settle near the banks of the starry eternal rivers of truth.