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Mr. KirkPatrick, may I just say that that's a cool last name? Anyway, I think that's a good theology to adopt, I should probably do that too. Well if there's one thing I have to say, it's that, if people in the UK take stuff for granted, it can only be secondary to the US, for we are the worst country in the world at taking things for granted.

Guille, splendid definition of everything. What I was wondering as I was walking over here to the computer lab is, what is the pure extent of everything, what is the pure extent of the TOE? Many people have suspected that the TOE will not be the ultimate theory of everything, that it will merely be the next step, and eventually another TOE will come along that we will think is complete, but is only actually complete for the time being, and yet again we will eventually find a greater theory, and so on and so forth ad ininitum. Lately though, I have begun to rethink this non-omnipotence of the imminent TOE.

You see, as I see it, the definition of everything has sort of changed over time, but the real scientific definition of everything hasn't. Traditionally, everything is everything that we know about, not what we don't know. Thus for a long time, the universe was equivalent to everything, such that you could say everything=the universe. Nowadays though, we have this idea of the multiverse, so now the multiverse=everything. Is this the last definition? I doubt it.

To effectively arrive at the true TOE, we must take the definition of everything to be literal, and to be scientific. Thus everything is quite as you've described: everything we know about plus everything we DON'T. Everything literally is EVERYTHING, which sounds redundant, but I think it is often taken for granted (along with everything else, haha that's redundant too). Thus by saying everything is, we essentially know about everything, without even really knowing about everything, and that is a dubious, although quite effective trick. This does not give away my TOE, but it speaks of it.

So I conclude that the pure extent of everything is absolute, and thus the TOE is the absolute description of existence. The TOE is true and pure, and nothing will come after it. These seems hard to believe, but I think I believe it.

ps. I think we let ourselves down by changing the definition of the universe. To me, the definition of the universe should stay pure, i.e. the universe=everything. So the universe is the multiverse, and whatever else there is. Afterall, by definition, there can only be one universe right?

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