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Scientists have many reasons to seek a grand unified theory of nature, but the information paradox is their most specific motivation, and it has guided their way when they have little else to go on.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 20, 2022
Each of these bits carries the texture of its antecedents; together they operate under a grand unified theory of if you know, you know.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2022
He arrived in Princeton and took up a position, working under Oppenheimer, at the Institute for Advanced Study, where Einstein had been spending his years in exile in vain pursuit of a grand unified theory.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2020
Many neuroscientists, if they think about the problem at all, simply consider that progress will inevitably be piecemeal and slow, because there is no grand unified theory of the brain lurking around the corner.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2020
This is longer than the lifetime predicted by the simplest grand unified theory, but there are more elaborate theories in which the predicted lifetimes are longer.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
An area of mathematics research called the Langlands program has been dubbed “a Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics” because of the connections it makes between many disparate subfields.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 12, 2022
“When bedrock principles collide,” she once famously cautioned, “they test the limits of categorical obstinacy and expose the flaws and dangers of a Grand Unified Theory that may be neither grand nor unified.”
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022
My half-decades-of-pop Grand Unified Theory holds that the pendulum swings at least once in the middle, and often again at the end, of a decade.
From Slate ● Dec. 21, 2019
More importantly, it continues to make generations of readers aware of the ongoing quest to come up with the Grand Unified Theory of Everything.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 13, 2018
This is consistent with ideas for what is termed Grand Unified Theory, the realm where particle physicists believe three of the four fundamental forces in nature can be tied together.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2014
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