General relativity vs Quantum Mechanics - The Two Equations That Shouldn't Exist (Part 2)

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:01]These are the two most successful equations in human history and they hate each other.

[00:00:08]On the left, Einstein's field equations.

[00:00:12]Gravity is the curvature of space-time, smooth, continuous, geometric. On the right, the Schrodinger equation. Reality is a fuzzy probability of waves, discrete, jumpy, statistical.

[00:00:29]Most of the time, this is fine. Gravity matters for big stuff like planets.

[00:00:35]Quantum stuff matters for tiny stuff like electrons. They never overlap, except they do in two places, inside black holes and at the Big Bang. Both theories are required.

[00:00:51]Both produce nonsense answers, infinity, division by zero. The math actually just stops working.

[00:01:01]So, somewhere out there is a deeper theory, one that contains both smoothly.

[00:01:07]We just haven't found it.

[00:01:09]And the search is the most interesting thing in physics.