"The term unified only unifies the chosen universe."
That being the one in which we live. I'm not sure which others we have to choose from, but I sure hope you're enjoying the one you're in right now.
48 posted on 08/31/2005 10:14:11 AM PDT by NJ_gent
(Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.)
This is a great point of dispute, running from Heraclitus to Kant. Some of them refused to include matter. Think of it, a grand unified theory, but no cosmology!
The discovery for some of them was that the universe is always larger than the theory.
49 posted on 08/31/2005 10:21:58 AM PDT by cornelis