{"id":163434,"date":"2023-05-06T07:26:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T12:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/whatever-happened-to-the-theory-of-everything"},"modified":"2023-05-06T07:26:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T12:26:22","slug":"whatever-happened-to-the-theory-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/whatever-happened-to-the-theory-of-everything","title":{"rendered":"Whatever happened to the theory of everything?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whatever-happened-to-the-theory-of-everything3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>It is only the optimists who achieve anything in this world <\/em>\u2014theorist John Ellis once read this adage on a candy wrapper. It stuck with him, so much so that in 1986 he referenced this candy-wrapper wisdom in his <em>Nature<\/em> article \u201cThe superstring: theory of everything, or of nothing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was pretty upbeat,\u201d Ellis says. \u201cI was pretty positive about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Ellis, \u2018theory of everything\u2019 is a rather tongue-in-cheek term for an encompassing framework that links together all physical phenomena on a fundamental level. The idea went viral, both scientifically and culturally. Numerous authors, philosophers and scientific influencers jumped on the bandwagon, including the makers of a 2014 biopic about Stephen Hawking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is only the optimists who achieve anything in this world \u2014theorist John Ellis once read this adage on a candy wrapper. It stuck with him, so much so that in 1986 he referenced this candy-wrapper wisdom in his Nature article \u201cThe superstring: theory of everything, or of nothing?\u201d \u201cI was pretty upbeat,\u201d Ellis says. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}