Be Careful What You Wish For

When you wish for unified humanity, your genie gives you Mr. Incredible with his cartoonishly perfect jaw. But ask for unified physics? You get the brooding intensity of a theoretical physicist who's seen the mathematical void. The contrast is perfect! While unifying humanity might seem like a noble goal (just make everyone look like a Pixar character, problem solved!), physicists have been chasing the holy grail of unified field theory for decades with increasingly haunted expressions. Einstein died still searching for it, and modern physicists are still having existential crises trying to reconcile quantum mechanics with general relativity. Your genie clearly has a twisted sense of humor about our scientific limitations!