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Theories of Everything

Throughout history, philosophers, priests, and scientists have sought to explain the physical properties of the world we live in.

Posted by Tormod Guldvog
13 September, 2001 04:09:54

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The ultimate goal is a single, understandable theory of everything. This theory must explain the properties of matter and energy. But the biggest prize would be to unite all fields of physics and mathematics into one Grand Unified Theory by explaining how gravity, the nuclear forces and electromagnetism all come from the same source.

Related Links

A Unified Physics by 2050?
http://www.sciam.com/1999/1299issue/1299weinberg.html
Article in Scientific American which claims that we may see a GUT by 2050.

Electron and Sub-Quantum Field Theory
http://www.ltn.lv/~elefzaze/
From the Field Model of Electron to the Unifield Theory, written by Alexander S. Zazerskiy.

Super Kamiokande at Boston University
http://budoe.bu.edu/~superk/
This is Boston U's page about results and projects involving the super kamiokande, which is a big bowl of water in which they test for proton decay and other nuclear projects.

M-theory, the theory formerly known as Strings
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/qg_ss.html
A paper in the Cambridge Relativity web which explains M-theory, or the search for the underlying theory behind superstrings.

The Quest for a Grand Unified Theory
http://www.yrbe.edu.on.ca/~langstaf/students/kamvarib/
An interesting journey through the recent history of the quest for a GUT, written by Behnam Kamvari.

Fermion Lie Algebras and Microscopic Theories of Nuclear Structure
http://csep1.phy.ornl.gov/guidry/Math-9-94html/math-root.html
A paper by Mike Guidry on the unification of nuclear theory.

The Origin and its Meaning
http://www.the-origin.org/
A website related to a book on a theory of everything. The entire book can be downloaded from these pages.

Bruce Harvey's Alternative Physics site
http://users.powernet.co.uk/bearsoft/
Bruce Harvey has his own ideas about a Theory of Everything.

Nature's Quantum Theory of Relativity
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/2382/
A rather philosophical discussion on spacetime and how it relates to a theory of everything.

Is Theory of Everything Possible?
http://www.greathonour.com/
A site with questions, research status, and lots of tables which discuss topics related to TOEs.

A Unified Field Theory
http://homepage.dtn.ntl.com/peter.hickman1/
A complete theory of everything - by Peter Hickman.

From Ellipses to Superstrings: A Brief History of Unification
http://www.sciborg.uwaterloo.ca/physics/p13news/number_4/superst.html
"The history of physics is the history of unification," writes Douglas Hayhoe, Ph.D., in this paper.