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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
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
“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
Edward Frenkel, a mathematician at the University of California, Berkeley, has even dubbed the Langlands program “a Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics.”
From Scientific American ● Mar. 21, 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 Olympic Mascots Above all else, a mascot must be adorable.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2012
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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