The scientists are always searching for the ultimate theory, the one which explains everything. With that theory, everything can be unde...
The scientists are always searching for the ultimate theory, the one which explains everything. With that theory, everything can be understood in the universe. Even if not every state could be defined in the universe with that ultimate theory - as fundamental probability and chaotic states still can exist -, most of the scientists would be satisfied with a kind of ultimate theory, even with such restrictions.
Candidates of Theory of Everything always existed. It was the Newtonian law of motion at its time, today maybe is the string theory. What is wrong with these ultimate theories? Can we actually find the real one? Is a theory, which could explain everything, can be found?
If such a theory exists, it must be closed, and it should explain itself as well. It should explain its starting parameters, its laws should come from itself as well, and all of these in an exclusive way. Such a theory may exist. It should exist. Otherwise, the causality would be invalid, and we would lose hope not to be able to find everything out.
All of our scientific theories are short of this kind of completeness yet. It is hard to imagine how such a self-closed and self-explanatory theory could be found. All of the experience in scientific research discourage scientists from finding such a theory. Should we lose hope? Even if it looks like an impossible task to find such a self-complete theory, it may exist.
There are maybe two ways to find it. One, which is the "regular" way, if the found theory simply is the ONE which we are searching for. It can be proven if it is self-consistent and self-explanatory. Maybe this one step eureka-like process is the way for science, just need some time to find it.
However, perhaps there is another way. The other way is if the found-theories create a closed chain. All our already found theories need starting parameters. These parameters with the laws of the theory create states. If the created states act as starting parameters of another theory, these theories could create a chain. If the chain of these theories creates states which serve as the starting parameters of the chain starting theory, then the chain becomes closed. Then this closed chain of theories would be the ultimate Theory of Everything.
Which method will work, the ONE or the closed chain method? Both are interesting. The first is a kind of find with luck, usually with an educated guess. It is the hard one, but with luck, we may find it within a reasonable time.
If the chain of theories is the real approach, the chain can be long, so the necessary time to find it can be long also. Even infinitely long in the case if the chain is infinitely long. In this case, the ladder of knowledge is infinitely high and will always be something new to find with the fact to never find the ultimate Theory of Everything. By our urge to find the Theory of Everything to understand the universe is a never-ending story then. The scientist's paradise.
If no theory without starting parameters exists, then there is hope to find the real one. If there is a theory complying with reality which does not need starting parameters, even if they are random parameters, we may face with the lock of the causality, and that would be the end of the reason to find where we come from.
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