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Theories of almost everything

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A provocative contribution to the logic of science extends the theorems of Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing, and bears on thinking about prediction, the standard model of particles, and quantum gravity.

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  1. P.-M. Binder is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii 96720, USA, and at the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas, Austin. pbinder@hawaii.edu,

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Binder, PM. Theories of almost everything. Nature 455, 884–885 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/455884a

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