grand unified theory

noun

1. physics any of a number of theories of elementary particles and fundamental interactions designed to explain the gravitational, electromagnetic, strong, and weak interactions in terms of a single mathematical formalism GUT

grand unified theory

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1. A theory of elementary forces that unites the weak, strong, electromagnetic, and gravitational interactions into one field theory and views the known interactions as low-energy manifestations of a single unified interaction.

Grand Unified Theory

1. A theory that describes the behavior of matter at temperatures that existed only in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang . In these theories, the strong , weak , and electromagnetic forces are unified. The greatest triumph of GUTs is that they explain the absence of antimatter in the universe. ( See also unified field theory .)

Example Sentences

An area of mathematics research called the Langlands program has been dubbed “a Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics” because of the connections it makes between many disparate subfields.

From Scientific American

Scientists have many reasons to seek a grand unified theory of nature, but the information paradox is their most specific motivation, and it has guided their way when they have little else to go on.

From Scientific American

Each of these bits carries the texture of its antecedents; together they operate under a grand unified theory of if you know, you know.

From Salon

“When bedrock principles collide,” she once famously cautioned, “they test the limits of categorical obstinacy and expose the flaws and dangers of a Grand Unified Theory that may be neither grand nor unified.”

From Washington Post

Edward Frenkel, a mathematician at the University of California, Berkeley, has even dubbed the Langlands program “a Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics.”

From Scientific American