Initially, the term theory of everything was used with an ironic reference to various overgeneralized theories. For example, a grandfather of Ijon Tichy – a character from a cycle of Stanisław Lem's science fiction stories of the 1960s … See more

Conventional sequence of theories
A theory of everything would unify all the fundamental interactions of nature: gravitation, … See more

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• Absolute (philosophy) – Philosophical or theological concept
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Antiquity to 19th century
Many ancient cultures such as Babylonian astronomers and Indian astronomy studied the pattern of the Seven Sacred Luminaires/ See more

In parallel to the intense search for a theory of everything, various scholars have debated the possibility of its discovery.
Gödel's incompleteness theorem
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• The Elegant Universe, Nova episode about the search for the theory of everything and string theory.
• Theory of Everything, freeview video by the Vega Science Trust, BBC and Open University.
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