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Theory of everything: do we really need one?

Great Mysteries of Physics

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The Challenges of Physicists

This week, we look at whether physics is broken from the brilliant minds tackling these mysteries every single day. From a lack of new particles being discovered to fundamental clashes between different theories, you may wonder whether physics is ultimately broken. But as we've seen in this episode, there are lots of theoretical physicists working on various proposals for creating a theory of everything. And that might be because we all have different perspectives and different ideas. We also have tremendous levels of curiosity and creativity which, when coupled with a rigorous scientific method, can achieve the seemingly impossible.

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