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Hawking: No 'Theory of Everything'

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-all-been-punked dept.

Flash Modin writes "In a Scientific American essay based on their new book A Grand Design, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow are now claiming physicists may never find a theory of everything. Instead, they propose a 'family of interconnected theories' might emerge, with each describing a certain reality under specific conditions. The claim is a reversal for Hawking, who claimed in 1980 that there would be a unified theory by the turn of the century."

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  1. Re:The hand of Godel? by c6gunner · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Perhaps is comes from the fact that 1 + 1 = 2 is a fiction, because there no two '1's in the universe.

    This is what you get for taking "music therapy" as a college major instead of, oh, I dunno ... MATH.

    The sad part is that the rest of your comment is actually fairly accurate - it just has absolutely nothing to do with your starting premise.