CROSSWORDS AND COHERENCE

摘要

[...] it may rely on nothing but its own coherence, and it is by this bootstrap of coherence that a TOE supports itself. Instead of listing the known leptons and quarks and putting them into arbitrarily chosen symmetrical families, as the Standard Theory does, a TOE would contain theoretical constructs corresponding to these particles, probably in terms of more fundamental entities that uniquely cohere with one another.