Vol. 5 No. 2 (2025): Studia Humanitatis Journal
Articles: miscellaneous

The ignorance of everything. Quantum physics guidelines towards a Theory of Everything and its disregard in the curriculum

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  • Francesc J. Hernandez ,
  • Vicent García ,
  • Carles Hernández
Francesc J. Hernandez
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5229-2998 (unauthenticated) University of Valencia image/svg+xml
Vicent García
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0468-6412 (unauthenticated) Universitat de València, España

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Carles Hernández
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7753-6238 (unauthenticated) Universitat de València, España

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33732/shj.v5i2.140

Published 2025-07-31

Keywords

  • Teaching,
  • Quantum physics,
  • Theory of Relativity,
  • Theory of Everything

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Abstract

The article reviews the most current scientific theories on the Everything, in order to show how far current teaching, in compulsory cycles, is from the demand of Comenius, the father of didactics, that teaching should deal with ‘the foundations, causes and goals of the most important things that exist and occur’. This calls for a radical reform of curricula. The article reviews the theories of Kulakov and his disciples, Garrett Lisi, Xiao-Gang Wen, Korompilias, Pitkänen, Oppenheim and Ashtekar and his disciples, more recent examples of Theories of Everything, and shows how their foundations are incomprehensible in current curriculum designs.

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