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04-13-2007, 04:13 AM
TOE: references in pop culture

The story of everything is the best story of all time. It has romance, mystery, adventure, and action. Even better than that, it tells timeless themes, cosmic ironies, and prophecies of great change.

This story has been prophecised and predicted for so long it's not even funny. But have you seen the references to it in pop culture today?

Here everybody can point out there favorite pop culture references and presages to the theory of everything. I will start us off with two

Star Wars
Part of the reason the original Star Wars was such a hit was because it spoke of timeless themes, the same type of timeless themes recently brought to light by the theory of everything.

For example, Star Wars is about the struggle between good and evil. Right now our world is in the same struggle. The presence of the evil empire can be seen all around us and it keeps us in an illusory world. Mainly it is the US government. There are freedom fighters however, who are destined to rise up and stop the cycle of tyranny and bring peace and common understanding to all mankind. Many prophecies exist which predict this coming redemption, and it's main figurehead, the "savior." The savior is Luke skywalker who is the chosen one to enact the great change. I see the Jedi Knights as scientists who are like magicians. They study the TOE and are able to gain mind over matter and other clairvoyant type abilities.

"The Force" is the same thing as the undivided field. The force has a postive and a negative component, like 1/0 that is the unification of positive and negative infinity. Everything is made out of north and south magnetic forces at the most fundamental level, hence the dark and the light side of the force.

Sublime
Sublime is a really great band and some of their lyrics refer to the theory of everything I believe. For example, in the song "Santeria" Bradley Knowell sings

"What I really want to know. What I really want to say, is undefined. But it's love that I live."

Bradley is saying that he cannot find the words to describe the greatest truth, what he really wants to say, but he concedes that it's love that he lives. This is similar to how the number with the greatest definition is such a beautiful and amazing thing that we leave it undefined. But, if we were to give it a definition, it would simply be "love"

In another one of their songs Sublime references a line from the Bible that says

"The stone that the builder refused, shall be the head cornerstone"

this seems to be a reference to the number 1/0, the one that the "mathematicians refused," that shall be the head cornerstone
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