Theory of everything

raimundxyz · Anmeldungsdatum: 17.08.2022 Beiträge: 1

Meine Frage:
to fit the lack of knowledge in theoretical physics, a 'grand unified theory,' therefore the combination of art and qm, might not be the answer.
instead, i rather believe in the existence of a third, independent theory, so that the sum of all theories gives a picture of what happens in nature.

the motivation is clear; the founders of qm did so too, when we came to a point, at which classic calculation led to nonsense (ultra-violet catastrophe). qm then was the answer.

i think, that it is worth a hypothesis, at possibly the same point of our understanding of the laws of nature, so...

Meine Ideen:
hypothesis
there is a third big theory, similar to art and qm, which explains corresponding phenomenons (that otherwise might remain unexplainable).

TomS · Moderator Anmeldungsdatum: 20.03.2009 Beiträge: 21442

A few remarks are in order:

This is a German forum, and we don't want to turn it into an English one. Also the English language has - and all keyboards support - capital letters ;-)

Regarding your question:

It is well known that a simple combination of general relativity and quantum field theory is inconsistent (e.g. Hawking radiation and violation of unitarity). So yes, physicists think about unifying theories which are more than a simple combination, but from which general relativity and quantum field theory, respectively, follow in suitable limiting cases (e.g. string theory).