Poem
Unified Field Theory
by Tim Joseph, 1975 (slightly altered)In the beginning there was Aristotle
And objects at rest tended to remain at rest
And objects in motion tended to come to rest
And soon everything was at rest
And God saw that it was boring.
Then God created Newton
And objects at rest tended to remain at rest
But objects in motion tended to remain in motion
And energy was conserved and momentum was conserved
and matter was conserved
And God saw that it was conservative.
Then God created Einstein
And everything was relative
And fast things became short
And straight things became curved
And the universe was filled with inertial frames
And God saw that it was relatively general
But some of it was especially relative.
Then God created Bohr
And there was the Principle
And the Principle was Quantum
And all things were Quantized
But some things were still Relative
And God saw that it was confusing.
Then God was going to create M
And M would have unified
And M would have fielded a theory
And All would have been One
But it was the seventh day
And God rested
And objects at rest tend to remain at rest.