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Originally Posted by Fadingstar
I was watching a program on tv where a few scientists, including Prof. Hawkins, believed that a unified theory was not far away.
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Originally Posted by Fadingstar
But considering the differences in the structure of QM and GR, I was left wondering if this was actually attainable.
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Not only do I think it is attainable, I think it is reasonable to argue that it has already been done. String theory is a quantum theory, but it wholly includes general relativity, which is not a quantum theory. That is one of the primary reasons that string theory is so popular amongst theoreticians as a candidate "theory of everything". Of course, the details of making general relativity quantized remain elusive. But if it were truly impossible, how could this be?