  Recent observations of distant supernovae show that the universe, contrary to
popular belief, is expanding for ever. Similarly, recent experiments at the
Superkamiokande facility demonstrate that the Neutrino has a non vanishing
mass. Both these discoveries necessitate, at the very least, a re-examination
of conventional theories-the Big Bang Theory and the Standard Model. On the
other hand, neither has quantum gravity yielded the desired results, nor can
String Theory be taken as the last word. We briefly examine this scenario, and
in this light consider the recent description of Fermions in terms of the
Kerr-Newman metric and the related model of Fluctuational Cosmology. All this
is not only consistent with known physics including the latest results alluded
to, but also explains hitherto inexplicable empirical facts like the handedness
of the Neutrino or the large number relations of Cosmology and so on. It is
shown that this scheme leads to a unified description of the fundamental
interactions. At the same time, pleasingly, we recover the usual quark picture
at the Compton wavelength scale and the Big Bang scenario at the Planck scale.
