XPost: sci.math   
   From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl   
      
   Ross Finlayson  wrote:   
      
   > On 10/19/2025 06:49 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   > > The Starmaker  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> 'The Theory of Everything is an overarching hypothetical framework   
   > >> that would explain the physics of the entire universe in a single   
   > >> equation. But unifying theories that define the large-scale   
   > >> cosmological structure of the universe with those that describe the   
   > >> minuscule quantum world of the subatomic particles has been a   
   > >> challenge for over a century.'   
   > >>   
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   > >>   
   > >> The key word here is... unifying.   
   > >>   
   > >> So, if energy is mass, and mass is energy...how come it's not called   
   > >> energymass? or massenergy??   
   > >>   
   > >> I mean, if you want to  unifying..then EM, not e=m.   
   > >>   
   > >> or energymass.   
   > >>   
   > >> Lets get this TOE started. Get it right!   
   > >>   
   > >>   explain the physics of the entire universe in a single equation.   
   > >>   
   > >> Is TOE a single equation of  the entire universe?   
   > >>   
   > >>   or an abbreviation?   
   > >   
   > > So you misunderstood that too.   
   > > The problem is not putting everything in a single equation.   
   > > That is trivial, the 'Great Feynman Equation' for example will do.   
   > >   
   > > The point is having no free parameters,   
   > >   
   > > Jan   
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   > That's pragmatic and begins to attain to a theory,   
   > yet eventually a "theory of everything" is actually   
   > involving also the mathematics and the logic and   
   > the philosophy and even the metaphysics of it all.   
   >   
   > I.e., a theory of everything is about the parameters that are free.   
      
   It is you who is thoroughly confused.   
   If there are free parameters in it it isn't the TOE,   
   by definition, (because it leaves things to be explained)   
      
   Jan   
      
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