i think i am getting the gist of it, in a nut shell: first there were fish aliens from Sirius, then came the Atlantis, followed by the ancient Egyptians, Sumer, Maya, then some.

then Greeks (Plato, Euclid, Aristotle, etc...), then Romans (B...runo, Copernicus, Galileo, etc...) then Russian Mendeleev has organized the periodic elements, and at last but not least the British Isaac Newton connected the Heavens and the Earth with his Newtonian laws explaining the force of gravity, which lets us down.

But fear not, eventually Albert Einstein refined it with his general laws of relativity, painting a curved by gravity space with sparking E=mc2 genius, then James Clerk Maxwell merged the electricity with magnetism into one electromagnetism force showing it to be billions of times stronger than the gravity.

then the quanta physics has arrived explaining that the atoms are made of the neutrons, protons, and electrons held together by so-called strong force, which if released created a nuclear explosion, with remnant weak force to account for the conversion of neutrons into protons, the effect of a radioactive decay.

Then the black holes were discovered to band the rules of physics to a point of being useless, however the two schools, of Newtonian dynamics and the quantum world, couldn't reconcile their differences until the string theory was boldly devised in order to explain it all in a neat grand unified way, thus establishing the Standard theory.

However the string theory made it impossible to test it, thus blurring the lines between the science and philosophy, yet it also added another 11 dimensions and infinite parallel universes to the mix, plus there are five official string theories to add to the confusion.

then Edward Witten presented the M theory explaining that all five string theories actually describe one string theory seen in five different ways.

then Garrett Lisi shocked the world with the discovery of his E8 Grand Unified Theory which predicts a slate of new elements in a 248 dimensional universe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Garrett_Lisi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction