First recorded in 1985–90
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As imposing as Roberts’s piece is ethereal, Walter McConnell’s “A Theory of Everything — Requiem in White” is a towering monument made of individual porcelain figurines, many of them kitschy.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2022
It was an attempt to create the narrative equivalent of the Theory of Everything.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2022
Actor Eddie Redmayne, who played Professor Hawking in the film about his life, The Theory of Everything, was one of several speakers there.
From BBC ● May 8, 2018
“I know for a fact that many people were offered The Theory of Everything first,” said Eddie Redmayne, who ended up winning an Oscar for his performance.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2018
Physicists began to think that string theory would unify quantum mechanics with relativity; they believed that it would lead to the theory of quantum gravity—the Theory of Everything that explains every phenomenon in the universe.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Physicists have long dreamed of devising a theory of everything — a set of equations that neatly and completely describe how the universe works.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
With warmth and humor, Hsu evokes the precocity of college life: “We stayed up so late, possessed by delirium, that we came up with a theory of everything, only we forgot to write it down.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2022
Author Adam Becker, in our cover story takes us on a romp through this mind-bending research that could potentially lead to a theory of everything.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 18, 2022
Unsurprisingly, the general theory of relativity, as it’s called, passed all the tests—a sign of its soundness, but also a null result that leaves physicists looking for clues to develop a unifying theory of everything.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 14, 2021
As was explained in the first chapter, it would be very difficult to construct a complete unified theory of everything in the universe all at one go.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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