9. A theory of everything.
Today I'm going to be talking about the grand answer to physics 'The Theory of Everything'.
First of all what do we mean my a theory of everything? Well physicists are working on a theory which can answer all universal phenomena and be able to know the outcome of an experiment without even doing it. It's basically a cheat sheet to life, once we have a working theory so much money will be saved from repeating and even just doing experiments. Research will not have to be undergone to work out what new findings mean as this supposed theory could also predict them. This would mean the ultimate advancement of physics and science.
So the theory of everything isn't a theory which could predict your every move - it doesn't mean 'everything' in that sense but rather a prediction of physical events which happen in our universe and how to explain them - say the behaviour of 'particle x'.
The problem is, two branches of physics - Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, are hard to unify and these aspects of physics need to be used in the 'Theory of Everything'. They're like the friends that fell out and physicists are trying to get them talking again.
Since physics' ultimate goal is to create a grand theory of everything capable of describing all the physical phenomena all branches and aspects of physics need to work together but more importantly be compatible.
Current contenders for the 'Theory of Everything' includes Garrett Lisi's theory 'An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything' wrote by a part time surfer/part time physicist and the interesting thing about this theory is that the maths is considered generally simple compared to similar theory's.
Another contender is simply the Standard Model, which is just the list 12 particles of matter and 4 forces of nature that govern the universe. Without really going into a formula of sorts this jumbled theory attempts to answer the calling for 'Theory of Everything' however some physicists disagree.
Some people just want a simple formula to describe the entirety of the physical universe but it's a little more complicated than that.
In the near future physics will greatly advance and even if we aren't able to come up with a all-in-one theory we may still be close to unifying some existing ones.
Thanks for reading, Chris.
Today I'm going to be talking about the grand answer to physics 'The Theory of Everything'.
First of all what do we mean my a theory of everything? Well physicists are working on a theory which can answer all universal phenomena and be able to know the outcome of an experiment without even doing it. It's basically a cheat sheet to life, once we have a working theory so much money will be saved from repeating and even just doing experiments. Research will not have to be undergone to work out what new findings mean as this supposed theory could also predict them. This would mean the ultimate advancement of physics and science.
So the theory of everything isn't a theory which could predict your every move - it doesn't mean 'everything' in that sense but rather a prediction of physical events which happen in our universe and how to explain them - say the behaviour of 'particle x'.
The problem is, two branches of physics - Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, are hard to unify and these aspects of physics need to be used in the 'Theory of Everything'. They're like the friends that fell out and physicists are trying to get them talking again.
Since physics' ultimate goal is to create a grand theory of everything capable of describing all the physical phenomena all branches and aspects of physics need to work together but more importantly be compatible.
Current contenders for the 'Theory of Everything' includes Garrett Lisi's theory 'An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything' wrote by a part time surfer/part time physicist and the interesting thing about this theory is that the maths is considered generally simple compared to similar theory's.
Another contender is simply the Standard Model, which is just the list 12 particles of matter and 4 forces of nature that govern the universe. Without really going into a formula of sorts this jumbled theory attempts to answer the calling for 'Theory of Everything' however some physicists disagree.
Some people just want a simple formula to describe the entirety of the physical universe but it's a little more complicated than that.
In the near future physics will greatly advance and even if we aren't able to come up with a all-in-one theory we may still be close to unifying some existing ones.
Thanks for reading, Chris.
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