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Originally Posted by wildman The interesting thing about TOEs is that every time someone comes out with a new theory that explains the world or universe that is comprehensive in any way, shape, or form, (and this includes group or concensus theories), it is hailed as "The Theory of EVERYTHING" and we always seem to discover a half-dozen more questions that it doesn't answer. My thought is that it is probably impossible to discover Everything, not only that, but I think it would be a bad idea anyway; after all if you've discovered EVERYTHING, what else is there? Strikes me that that would be rather boring.

The TOE will not tell us every single little thing there is to know. For example, it will not tell us what the next drug will be to treat ADD, or something obscure like that. However, what it will tell us is all the most basic fundamental questions about nature, such as how nature operates and how it began. This is really the most central question to the TOE which most people tend to dodge, "how and why did the universe begin?" When we know the answer to this question we will understand what we mean when we say the word God. So while a theory that tells you how to calculate which Quarter-Horse will win at the All-American Futurity will never exist, we can indeed develop a theory that tells us the most fundamental things about the universe such as how it began and how it operates. That is what the TOE is.

As for the world being boring after the TOE, well, that will be far from the truth. Please refer to the quote at the end of my posts.

Originally Posted by wildman Also there would be the everpresent danger of a somebody or group of somebodies getting control of Everything and making paradise for themselves and purgatory for the rest of us, (the human race is still after all, the human race).

Good observation. So you're saying we would be at the mercy of he who created the TOE?

Originally Posted by wildman Actually, I do have one heretical worry, and that is finding out that this is a more perfect version of "SimWorld" on some perfect computer and that the fellows upstairs have been having a blast watching our collective lunacy.

Don't get too far ahead of yourself Nostradamus, you're gonna spoil it for the rest of us

until next time, sleep easy

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