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== Motivations ==
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=== Beauty ===
Dirac on beauty.

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=== Source Code and the End of Physics ===
In his answer to the last [https://www.edge.org/ Edge.org] annual question "What is the Last Question?", Eric [https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27761 responded:]
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Does something unprecedented happen when we finally learn our own source code?
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The source code, or a theory of everything, would mean the end of theoretical discovery at the most fundamental level of physics; all new discovery would take place at levels of more complexity.

=== Twin Nuclei Problem of Cell and Atom ===
Geometric Unity is hoped to solve the [[Twin Nuclei Problem]] by finding a means of breaking the Einsteinian speed limit, the speed of light, so that human life can spread across the cosmos. Eric says that does not necessarily imply faster-than-light travel or other concepts in that vein, and that he does not know whether this hope will bear fruit. A theory of everything, though, would provide definite means of exploring possible ways around Einstein's constraint.

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=== New April Fools' Day Tradition ===
The release of updates to Geometric Unity on (or around) April 1st is to establish a new April Fools' Day tradition. The tradition was conceived in recognition that many ideas may never be expressed due to social pressures and the risk to livelihood and reputation. To address that, it is proposed that on one day a year, people should be allowed to put forward competent, partial ideas that would normally tarnish one's reputation or destroy one's career. Then let the "fools" develop their ideas for a year, and report back, with the choice of abandoning the idea without reputational cost or continuing their pursuit. 

Eric first outlined this idea in two Twitter threads in the Spring of 2018, and discussed it further at the beginning of [[A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look]]. During the video's preface, in relation to Geometric Unity, he said, "[If] there is a fool, it is certainly me, because I have sat on this theory for almost 40 years."

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