For many years, so-called scientists, and in particular particle physicists, have been promising a General Unified Theory (GUT) that will comprehend and/or explain everything (reality).

It hasn't happened yet, and it isn't going to happen. The reason is that any grammar is dualistic while reality is non-dualistic.

Physicists would have to come up with something akin to the Vedic Mahavalkyas in order to comprehend and/or explain reality. But if they did, their work would be redundant as well as beside the point since not even the Mahavalkyas (one of them is You are That) comprehend and/or explain reality. They only indicate it to an already purified intellect that is ready to receive this final instruction.

Reality is not asymptotic. It cannot be measured by a standard external to Itself. Indeed, there is no standard external to Reality by which Reality can be measured. So that, any standard which purports to measure Reality is merely a tautology, not a demonstration of a general theory.

There is no continuum between science and religion.

Science is a long corridor having ten doors. Open any door and enter a long corridor with ten doors. Open any of these doors and enter a long corridor with ten doors. And so forth ....

Science is a new patch-work of theory every ten years. Phrases such as 'We now known that ....', 'Studies have shown that ....' and 'It has become increasingly clear that ....' are evidences of feebleness.

Just as Theologians have ignored Schweitzer, Scientists have ignored Gödel. We don't have to become despondent (Schweitzer) or hysterical (Gödel). It's time to face facts, work hard, come clean and build truthfully.

The process of verification of anything never ends. It is an infinite task. Therefore, nothing can ever be verified.

The process of verification requires summation of everything because there is no isolated system. Summation of everything can never be done. Therefore, nothing can ever be verified --- including a GUT.

Adwaitha Hermitage
March 24, 1993