• Question: Are scientists going to find a "theory of everything"? What is your point of view on this?

    Asked by ZombieBomb to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 16 Jun 2015.
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      Steven Thomson answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      I’m not sure if we ever will, in all honesty. There’s no reason there even has to be one big theory that describes everything – it might just be that there are lots of little theories that we piece together to describe our universe. Or maybe there is a theory of everything but we’re not smart enough to find it.

      I hope we do figure it out one day though, because it would be an amazing discovery if we could do it!

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      Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      @ZombieBomb A very exciting question with a rather unexciting answer: I don’t know. There are a number of theories that have the potential to become a theory of everything – string theory, loop quantum gravity, M-theory – but the mathematics involved is so difficult that there isn’t anyone around who can truly work it out properly. So it’s not that there isn’t a theory of everything, it’s just that if there is, it’s really difficult to find out about, and even more difficult to prove with an observation. However, if string theory or M-theory (which is a modern string theory) prove to be right, the consequence is that we are in but one universe of many many millions…….

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      Sarah Beasley answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      Haha, it’s on my ‘to solve’ list, just let me get around to it 🙂 I hate the idea of quantum physics. It blows my mind. Therefore there must be some other explanation 😛

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