From tip to TOE
By TOE I mean "Theory of Everything". The basic rules that govern our universe (so if you think there are multiple universes, it's not really about everything). There are several attempts to unify all physics, but there is no widely accepted version of it. I have an intuition what it should be, which I'm going to share with you here.
I believe the fundamental theory is not geometric. Geometry should be an emergent phenomenon, a statistical property of a large number of basic objects, something like pressure or temperature. Human brain likes to think geometrically, that's why many theories are like this, including the string theory and its generalizations which have all these multi-dimensional objects called "branes". But I don't think it's the ultimate answer.
So, if geometry is not fundamental enough, then what is? I think it's information. I can't think of anything more basic than that. In an earlier entry in this blog I stated that I don't think we live in a simulation, but actually the universe can be something similar to a computer with a very large number of bits of information in its memory. I don't know any theory like this, but if it exists, it may be close to the true Theory of Everything.
Edited by PawelS
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