[yanniru]

The letters TOE have come to mean a theory that unifies the four forces of nature. Since three are already unified in GUT, the TOE means the unification of gravity with GUT. But, restricting ourselves to physics, TOE should mean the theory of everything that exists. There is no need to theorize about things that do not exist.

So I hypothesize that Planck scale energies are never reached anywhere, even in the so-called singularities of black holes, not even in the Big Bang. The truth of this hypothesis is a separate question. My point is that if that hypothesis is true, then GUT plus a quantum GR theory treats everything in existence.

Richard