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qualities of a perfect authority. The qualities by which one can identify a perfect authority are described in the
Bhagavad-gita verses Bg 2.55 to 2.72.

Modern speculative science based on imperfect observation, experiment and logical inference can never
achieve a unified field theory of all matter

Modern scientists are imperfect authorities. Their speculative theories will always inadequately explain the
functioning of the material world. Without understanding the existence of Lord Krishna as the origin of
everything material and spiritual, the modern scientists will never achieve their dream of a unified field theory.
What is this theory?
….the attempt to describe all fundamental forces and the relationships between elementary particles in terms of
a single theoretical framework. In physics, forces can be described by fields that mediate interactions between
separate objects. In the mid-19th century James Clerk Maxwell formulated the first field theory in his theory of
electromagnetism. Then, in the early part of the 20th century, Albert Einstein developed general relativity, a field
theory of gravitation. Later, Einstein and others attempted to construct a unified field theory in which
electromagnetism and gravity would emerge as different aspects of a single fundamental field. They failed, and
to this day gravity remains beyond attempts at a unified field theory. (Quote from Encyclopaedia Britannica
about The Unified Field Theory by Christine Sutton)

Einstein failed to formulate The Unified Field Theory (UFT) in his lifetime. To this day, scientists still have not
been able to construct the UFT. The reason for this failure is that scientists do not understand the fundamental
property of all things in this world. They consider primary and secondary qualities in the following way:

Primary qualities are thought to be properties of objects that are independent of any observer, such as solidity,
extension, motion, number and figure. These characteristics convey facts. They exist in the thing itself, can be
determined with certainty, and do not rely on subjective judgments. For example, if an object is spherical, no one
can reasonably argue that it is triangular.

Secondary qualities are thought to be properties that produce sensations in observers, such as color, taste, smell,
and sound. They can be described as the effect things have on certain people. Knowledge that comes from
secondary qualities does not provide objective facts about things.
Primary qualities are measurable aspects of physical reality. Secondary qualities are subjective.

Both primary and secondary qualities as defined above are not the correct way to perceive the reality of things
in this world. What the scientists and psychologists have done is separate the perception of reality from Lord
Krishna. In other words, they see everything minus Krishna. Thus they remain always baffled in trying to explain
what is real. This point is explained in the Srimad Bhagavatam:

ṛte 'rthaṁ yat pratīyeta / na pratīyeta cātmani
tad vidyād ātmano māyāṁ / yathābhāso yathā tamaḥ

O Brahmā, whatever appears to be of any value, if it is without relation to Me, has no reality. Know it as My
illusory energy, that reflection which appears to be in darkness. (SB 2.9.34)

Bhaktivedanta Swami explains:

In the previous verse it has already been concluded that in any stage of the cosmic manifestation—its
appearance, its sustenance, its growth, its interactions of different energies, its deterioration and its
disappearance—all has its basic relation with the existence of the Personality of Godhead. And as such, whenever

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