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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
Selterman says there is no grand, unified theory of dreams but notes, “Our dreams are doing something. It’s beyond the meaning that we draw from them.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2021
As Stephen would so poetically put it, if scientists could come up a grand unified theory that explained both these fields we would truly understand everything: we would finally “know the mind of God.”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 13, 2018
He devoted the rest of his life to searching for a way to tie up these loose ends by finding a grand unified theory, and always failed.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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
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
A Grand Unified Theory of Pixar Those Easter eggs aren’t inside jokes—they tell the secret history of a world where the little girl from Monsters Inc. grows up to be the elderly witch from Brave.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2013
Only 27% of children know he invented it in the 19th Century - 9% think he invented it in the 17th Century.It's the Grand Unified Theory.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2011
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