what's the point of the so-called 'law of everything', the ultimate physical theory? the unifying theory of the universe?
Imho it's just a delusion; from a philosophical viewpoint, wouldn't it be inferred from a set of axioms given for granted? how can that be 'the end'?
Physics is an open field per se. How can it become a closed theory i.e. how can every physical truth be derived from the axioms?
Am I missing something?
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>Am I missing something?
Yes, at least 12 years of physics education, for your opinion to even matter.
It's just a theory that can unify all the theories we have about physics into one shindig, ie. Unifying relativity and qm
two theories that work for different situations..
doesn't that bother you, instead of having on theory that works for ALL situations?
that's the point of physics.
If you want axioms, go do math.
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a theory from which all derives, what would be more elegant, useful and make clear the understanding of the universe?
oh, you're right, Gödel was a fucking nobody...
jeez man, get yourself together. well known physics professors doubt the existence of a unifying theory, and that's the answer you can give me?
Do you know what epistemology is?
Do you even know what theory means?
Come on, prove me wrong, explain me why string theory, for example, is just an explanation and not a theory.
that's actually not the point of physics. there is not a 'single point' in physics. It depends how you do it. Mainly, it's trying to explain how things work, not getting them into a single theory. There's a huge difference.
Still, it depends; to paraphrase Einstein's words, 'to know what a physicist does don't ask him directly, look at his work'
The law of everything is God.
Oddly enough, that is something most people could fall for, having a unifying theory and 'worshipping' it.
Sadly, God is just an explanation. It doesn't give you a way to infer anything about the world.
Well for now it may as well be God because we don't know.