[analog]

Arthur,

A general unification theory will reveal to us the fundamental mechanism used to create our world. It would also point us in the direction to look for the reason for life, consciousness, etc., which are things we generally don't relate to physics.

If we were to work from the foundation of a true general unification theory outward, it would be realized that it's the fundamental foundation of a TOE. This would give us the tools we need to probe all and any realm of our world: reality, existence, counsciousness, universal mechanics, etc. It would unite what could be viewed as abstract entities in our world with those entities we view as universally fundamental, because all things are truly fundamental, else they wouldn't exist.

Being as the TOE is the tool for understanding, it could be used to probe all of history through every instance of time/cause and effect, to the point where we understand universally , or relative to existence, why your car won't start, but we probably would still lack the mental capacity to calculate every instance of time/cause and effect, which would allow us to mentally recreate every moment from a theoretical begining to the moment of your unfortunate incident. In other words, the Toe gives us the how, why, where and what, but it too is at the mercy of the when/time. It can explain the when also, but that's what it's been doing since this all started. The total amount of time from a begining to an end of our universe is how long it took the TOE to reveal all instances of cause and effect. Thus, we probably can't recreate any part of it in any less time, which would allow for us to instantaneously understand something that is in essence cause and effect and has been happening since the beginning.

I hope this helps.

P.S. I hope your car cranks, and I hope you enjoy driving it, because if it too wasn't needed, it wouldn't be here. Some people think man is set against our world, and has the power to effect it in a negative way, but we don't have that power. We are blindly doing that which we a fundamentally here to do. If that, which we do by our actions, appears destructive to our immediate realm, then the destruction of that realm is constructive to a greater realm we currently don't understand. Any self realization of our actions that causes guilt which slows the process down is merely the universal mechanism to govern our progress for a reason. Our consciousness is our connection to the universal direction we must go in, which drives the universal vehicle of mankind, and our emotions are the steering wheel.

If we choose to believe that our conscious actions could ever be destructive to the direction we must universally go towards, then we might as well quite searching for a Toe, because we have effectively inserted a variable that could never be accounted for. Thus, true understanding of a Toe needs and must have a direction to go in and all things in existence must contribute to that direction or flow. If you want to know why you are here, look at the things you do in day to day life. A Toe will merely let you see how that flows with the rest of the universe.