Talk:Unification of theories in physics

Great unifications

@Deacon Vorbis: this article, and the text you reverted at Newton's law of universal gravitation, are based on a large number of high quality sources. In case you have already looked at the ones in this article, see some more below:

Fritz Rohrlich (25 August 1989). From Paradox to Reality: Our Basic Concepts of the Physical World. Cambridge University Press. pp. 28–. ISBN 978-0-521-37605-1.
Klaus Mainzer (2 December 2013). Symmetries of Nature: A Handbook for Philosophy of Nature and Science. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 8–. ISBN 978-3-11-088693-1.
Encyclopedia.com

All of these, and many more, use the exact terminology described in this article. Onceinawhile (talk) 21:50, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This page is redundant with Theory of everything, which already describes the topic and its history in more detail. XOR'easter (talk) 04:16, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The ToE is also known as the "final unification". None of the other unifications have been described as a theory of everything or final unification, either now or at original publication.

This article is analogous to World war, and the Theory of everything article to Third world war (or armageddon).

Onceinawhile (talk) 07:09, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No, this article is analogous to Theory_of_everything#Historical_antecedents. XOR'easter (talk) 15:38, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dictionary definition of “antecedent”: “ someone or something existing or happening before”.

The subtitle you linked to is explicit that the other unifications are not the topic of that article. Onceinawhile (talk) 16:33, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The concept of unification, by itself, isn't something I've seen discussed in physics as a concept unto itself. If you can find any reputable sources that mention this as a broad concept that's a part of physics - outside of pedagogical explanations building up to a Theory of Everything, I think that the page would be justified by itself. But I haven't seen it used outside of those cases in my own experience. For now, I've made it redirect to ToE. - carchasm (talk) 05:31, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Carchasm, thanks for this. I was not pinged so I did not see your edit. You are welcome to take this to AfD if you like. Onceinawhile (talk) 19:55, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]