A breakthrough in the quest for a Theory of Everything

The philosopher and cultural historian Nicholas Hagger claims to have solved one of the greatest problems of science by proposing a Theory of Everything to explain completely, and embrace, all aspects of the universe. Scientists are now being called upon to test it.

Nicholas Hagger started thinking about a Theory of Everything in 1991 when he read Theories of Everything: The quest for ultimate explanation by the cosmologist, theoretical physicist and mathematician John Barrow (1952–2020), a foremost expert on the subject.

In the following year, on the morning after he’d given a talk to five hundred scientists and mystics in Winchester, Hagger happened to have breakfast with Barrow and asked him: ‘Where do love and order come into your mathematics?’ Barrow replied that he was not prepared to go outside his area of cosmology, the materialistic level. Yet Hagger was convinced from that day that a Theory of Everything must include love, order and harmony.

A theory of everything, or a unified field theory, an encompassing theoretical framework of physics to explain completely and connect all aspects of the universe, has eluded science so far and remains one of its major unsolved problems.

Two theoretical frameworks, on which all physics stands, have been arrived at: general…