That's because the quest for a unified theory that would account for all the forces of nature has pushed current mathematics to its limits.

这是因为，对能解释所有自然力量的统一理论的追求已经把目前的数学推到了极限。

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We believe there is a unified theory underlying all the regularities.

我们相信在所有的规律下有一个统一的理论。

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He spent the final 25 years of his life in search of a unified theory.

前者耗费了生命中最后25年的光阴去寻找这样一种整合理论。

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This is not a unified theory in the standard sense of physics.

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Roger Penrose, for example, has long been on record as arguing that it is quantum mechanics, not general relativity, that needs to be modified in order to successfully develop a grand unified theory.

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He would spend the next three decades, ending with some equations scribbled while on his deathbed in 1955, stubbornly criticizing what he regarded as the incompleteness of quantum mechanics while attempting to subsume it into a unified field theory.

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