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When physics stops admitting it has four different personality disorders and finds one.
means The act or process of combining separate parts into a single, coherent whole.
from Built from Latin unus 'one' plus facere 'to make,' passed through medieval Latin unificare, 'to make into one.' The -fication suffix is the same workhorse found in 'purification' and 'clarification' — all descendants of facere doing the job of turning an adjective into an act.
- maxwell did it
- merged electricity and magnetism into one field in 1865
- standard model
- unified three of four forces, still ghosting gravity
- einstein's last 30 years
- spent chasing unification, caught nothing
- string theory's pitch
- promises unification, delivers extra dimensions instead