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In less than four weeks, Jim Baker from Houston will announce in a press release that he has a new TOE (Theory of Everything). He says he has certain conditions for its release: namely a suitable peer group of physicists from across the country, along with proper media coverage and much documentation of the release from various entities. His website will be given in a few weeks which will have the press release posted, and/or information on how to obtain the press release. |
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Revision as of 11:45, 22 November 2002
A Theory of everything or TOE is a physicists' jargon term for a theory in physics which unifies the four fundamental forces of nature: gravity, the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, and the electromagnetic force.
There have been numerous theories of everything proposed by theoretical physicists over the last century, but as yet none has been able to stand up to experimental scrutiny. Popular candidates for a theory of everything at the moment include string theory and M-theory.
Theories of everything must be distinguished from grand unified theories (or GUTs), which attempt to unite all the fundamental forces except gravity. We already have a successful theory that unites the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces into a single electroweak force; GUTs attempt to unify the strong nuclear and electroweak forces.
Many GUTs predict proton decay; however proton decay has not been observed.
Other attempts have included Kaluza-Klein theory, an early attempt to unify electromagnetism with gravity.
See also: The Theory of Everything, a book by Stephen Hawking