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-as of [19 OCTOBER 2024]–
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*AKA* —>
*ToE*
*final theory*
*ultimate theory*
*master theory*
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*FRONT RUNNERS* —>
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-a theory of everything is a hypothetical single +all-encompassing, coherent theoretical framework of physics that fully explains and links together all physical aspects of the ‘universe’–
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(finding a ‘ToE’ is 1 of the major unsolved problems in ‘physics’)
(over the past few centuries, 2 theoretical frameworks have been developed that, as a whole, most closely resemble a ‘ToE’)
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(these 2 theories upon which all modern physics rests are “general relativity” (GR) and “quantum field theory” (QFT))
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(‘GR’ is a ‘theoretical framework’ that only focuses on ‘gravity’ for understanding the ‘universe’ in regions of both ‘large-scale’ + ‘high-mass’)
SUCH AS…
’stars’
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‘galaxies’
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‘galaxy clusters’
(…and so on…)
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(on the other hand, ‘QFT’ is a ‘theoretical framework’ that only focuses on 3 ‘non-gravitational forces’ for understanding the ‘universe’ in ‘regions’ of both ‘small scale’ + ‘low mass’…)
SUCH AS…
‘sub-atomic particles’
‘atoms’
‘molecules’
(…and so on…)
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(‘QFT’ successfully implemented the ‘standard model’ and unified the interactions (the so-called ‘grand unified theory’) between the 3 non-gravitational forces…)
‘weak’
‘strong’
‘electro-magnetic force’
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(through years of research, physicists have ‘experimentally confirmed’ with tremendous accuracy virtually every prediction made by these 2 theories when in their appropriate “domains of applicability”)
(in accordance with their findings, scientists also learned that ‘GR’ and ‘QFT’, as they are currently formulated, are mutually incompatible – they cannot both be right)
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(since the usual ‘domains of applicability’ of ‘GR’ and ‘QFT’ are so different, most situations require that only 1 of the 2 theories be used)
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(as it turns out, this incompatibility between ‘GR’ and ‘QFT’ is apparently only an issue in ‘regions’ of ‘extremely small-scale’ + ‘high-mass’…)
SUCH AS…
those that exist within a ‘black hole’
(or during the beginning stages of the ‘universe’…)
(as in “the moment immediately following *the big bang*”)
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(to resolve this conflict, a ‘theoretical framework’ revealing a deeper underlying reality, unifying ‘gravity’ with the other 3 interactions, must be discovered to harmoniously integrate the realms of ‘GR’ + ‘QFT’ into a seamless whole: a single theory that, in principle, is capable of describing all ‘phenomena’)
(in pursuit of this goal, ‘quantum gravity’ has become an area of active research)
(eventually a single explanatory framework, called “string theory”, emerged that intends to be the “ultimate theory of the universe”)
(“string theory” posits that at the beginning of the universe (up to 10−43 seconds after the “big bang”), the 3 fundamental forces were once a “single fundamental force”)
(according to ‘string theory’, every ‘particle’ in the ‘universe’, at its most microscopic level (aka “planck length’), consists of varying combinations of ‘vibrating strings’ (or ‘strands’) with preferred patterns of ‘vibration’)
(“string theory” further claims that it is through these ‘specific oscillatory patterns’ of ‘strings’ that a ‘particle’ of ‘unique mass’ + ‘force charge’ is created…)
(…that is to say, the ‘electron’ is a type of ‘string’ that vibrates one way, while the ‘up-quark’ is a type of string vibrating another way, and so forth)
(initially, the term theory of everything was used with an ‘ironic connotation’ to refer to various ‘over-generalized theories’)
(for example, a grandfather of ‘ijon tichy’ (a character from a cycle of ‘stanisław lem’s science fiction stories’ of the 1960s) was known to work on the “general theory of everything”)
(physicist ‘john ellis’ claims to have introduced the term into the ‘technical literature’ in an article in nature in ‘1986’)
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(over time, the term stuck in popularizations of ‘theoretical physics research’)
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