Space also bends itself into a transdimensional form, and is seen now as co-equal with time.
Quantum mechanics is the study of phenomena on an atomic level. The general theory of relativity describes the force of gravity and the 'large' scale structure of the universe. Traditional science finds it impossible to incorporate the two theories into a single unified theory. Experimental data doesn't always corraborate theoretical predictions, and everyone rushes back to their laboratories, peeling off another layer, trying to see ever more deeply into the mystery.
Non-traditional theorists, right-brain theorists, do not find it so difficult to unify the disparate extremes and paradoxes that permeate the cosmos... Spiritual union, dreams, or the psychedelic experience lend a view of the clockwork hiding behind creation, and the mobius of space-time.