Magical Realist
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Would that be the end of science? What else would it need to do after that? Is one Theory of Everything even possible?
What if science discovered the Theory of Everything?
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Not by a long shot.
Prove it, defend it, find ways to use it, develop the resultant discoveries, teach it.
A theory is never the end of anything. It's the beginning of experimentation, testing, questioning, debunking, argument, opposition, nitpicking, second-guessing... and, eventually, if nobody can disprove it, backlash.
I doubt it, since I don't even know what-all it ought to comprise in order to qualify.
Magical Realist
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Do you think AI will accelerate the progress science is making towards a TOE? I think if and when a TOE is formulated then the issue of how consciousness and the mind originates will have to be addressed. AI may help in that project too. It may even provide us with a direct hands-on demonstration of how consciousness arises in itself, assuming we could even understand it.
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Pinball1970
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Good question, great question in fact and very exciting to think about.
String theory is an attempt but I don't think they have much after nearly 40 years.
GR and QM are not compatible. Stephen Hawking wrote a paper which begins (para) "It is reasonable to say at this point in time we do not have a coherent theory of quantum gravity..."
The year? 1975, the paper is 50 years old next year and the situation is the same.
The HEP (high energy physics) people have not found a dark matter particle, supersymmetric particle and no evidence of other dimensions.
I posted a thread on a DM experiment you may be interested in.
JWST is also on the look out.
Gawdzilla Sama
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The development of The Theory of Everything would be the start of a very interesting (IMNSHO) period in human history.
Revelation In Space
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Isn't science itself the theory of everything?
Gawdzilla Sama
Valued Senior Member
Not yet. The Science of Everything's goal is a greater "E=MC2", covering all stages and phases of matter and energy. (At least that's what I was taught at Purdue.)
Pinball1970
Registered Senior Member
Yes. Where we are right now. That will change as the scientific method reveals more stuff.
Gawdzilla Sama
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Where are you going with that?
CeasarSalad1979
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If you can make an experiment that can be accurately measured to include nearly every proven fact and contending theory, it would still have to do something previously thought impossible to have any merit.
CeasarSalad1979
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Imagine if you must that every part of everything acts and reacts just as science has shown.
Every sample large and small has a point in it where every scientific truth exists.
Every sample large and small has a point in it where every scientific truth exists.
Gawdzilla Sama
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Really? How would that work?
CeasarSalad1979
Registered Member
Science is fields, numbers, and objective conclusions(along with many other specific experiments)
So you can basically take any part of reality and apply pieces of every scientific principal.
It appears this color and produces this much heat because of all these scientific factors for instance
So you can basically take any part of reality and apply pieces of every scientific principal.
It appears this color and produces this much heat because of all these scientific factors for instance