As unity-seeking inquiry takes place, the curator needs their unification library, so they can have the harmonization of ideas, the analysis of data, the synthesis of theory, and framework for conceptual integration.
General unification (GU) is the categorical lay out and the systematic approach of collecting and documenting unification. This is the basis for the canon. By design this enterprise covers it all, literally any and every unification has a place here. This also includes the task of making New Unification Proposals (NUP).
Because there are so many unifications to be had, (GU) has four categories for documenting.
- Similarity Comparison (SC): The research, collection and documentation of any philosophical or scientific material, that can be interpreted as saying the same thing that The Unified Field is suggested to be.
- Philosophical Unification Research (PUR): The research, collection and documentation of all philosophies of unification. (PUR) can be broadened to applying philosophy to any unification, including scientific.
- Meta Unification (MU): The process of unifying different theories and systems to an elevated, more comprehensive scope, and higher abstract level of analysis. It’s the research, study, and documentation of the convergence of scientific evidence, and the goal of mapping out the unification of all scientific theories. (MU) can be broadened to a scientific view applied to any unification, including philosophical.
- New Unification Proposals (NUP): The documentation of new proposals unifying anything, philosophical or scientific. One process is to collect and analyze disparate concepts and fields of knowledge, with the aim of unifying them into a coherent and comprehensive whole. While inventing new unifications are encouraged, (NUP) can also be opinions, reviews, and debates over pre-existing unification theories. Scientific (NUP) will need to enter the scientific process, and philosophical ones will need to be conveyed at a symposium among peers.
There is a widely debated topic in the philosophy of science and physics, as to whether or not physics would be complete if a (TOE) was achieved. There is no question that a (TOE) would be a major milestone in our understanding of the universe, but there is no consensus on if it would mean the end of physics as a field of study. One side argues that a (TOE) would provide a complete and comprehensive explanation of all physical phenomena, leaving no unanswered questions or unexplained observations. The other side points out that there will still be many practical and theoretical challenges in physics to be addressed, like developing new technologies to test the predictions of a (TOE), and exploring the implications and connections physics has with theories for other fields of science and philosophy.
A (TOE) should give an explanation for the existence of all phenomena, but that does not mean that each and every phenomenon in the universe will be understood. A successful (TOE) will be a new era in physics, and the next phase will be to unify the (TOE) with all of the other theories for each of the many individual phenomenon in the universe, fill in the missing links within the branches of theories and unifying them with each other, make refinements where necessary, and study what it all means and how to use it.
Since the original concept of a (TOE), which is the proposed possibility of a mathematical formula unifying all the fundamental forces of the universe, the meaning has been expanded. This is because it’s easy enough for just about anyone to grasp an understand, simply by taking the phrase “Theory Of Everything” literally. Once you have done that, all you have to do is let your imagination run wild and include it as part of “Everything”. On the extreme end of this point of view, “Everything” could include being able to experience identically what someone else is experiencing. Regardless of the amount of knowledge that is possible to have and how much we can actually do with it, now we have more than one kind of (TOE). To avoid an oxymoron, I acknowledge two types, a traditional (TOE) and an expanded one. The following are basic discirptions.
A traditional (TOE): The creation of a formula that explains the nature of matter and energy, the behavior of particles at the quantum level, and the structure of space and time.
An expanded (TOE): The creation of a theory that allows someone to develope the ability to understand all of the phenomena in the universe, and experience it intimately as a unified whole.
As scientific and philosophical theories are being unified by (GU), it will be building a tree like structure where a (TOE) belongs at the base, and the full structure is the Tree Of Everything (Tree-OE). As this hierarchy of reality continues to be mapped out, the goal is to be able to travel through all knowledge and the human story seamlessly. If the (Tree-OE) reaches a high enough level of development, it might even become the expanded (TOE).