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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Pardon, but what would be left unexplained in physics? The whole point of a GUT is to create one theory to explain all aspects of physics. Godel's theorem clearly implies that it can't be done, as there will always be questions unanswerable. I have no problem with Unification Theories, just the idea of a all-encompassing GUT.... But the belief that there can be a GUT, is an act of "faith".
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Godel's theorem is about mathematics. A GUT is about physics - the two are fundamentally different. Mathematics is a discipline in which statements may be proved or disproved. Physics, as a science, is a disipline which is trying to produce models of our reality, without making any statement about their absolute "truth". The fact that science uses mathematics in its toolkit does not imply that they are one and the same.
/JB