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==Name== Initially, the term ''theory of everything'' was used with an ironic reference to various overgeneralized theories. For example, a grandfather of [[Ijon Tichy]] โ a character from a cycle of [[Stanisลaw Lem]]'s [[science fiction]] stories of the 1960s โ was known to work on the "[[General Theory of Everything]]". Physicist [[Harald Fritzsch]] used the term in his 1977 lectures in [[Varenna]].<ref>{{Cite journal |first=Harald |last=Fritzsch |date=1977 |journal=CERN Report |title=THE WORLD OF FLAVOUR AND COLOUR |volume=Ref.TH.2359-CERN}} (download at https://cds.cern.ch/record/875256/files/CM-P00061728.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200212051758/https://cds.cern.ch/record/875256/files/CM-P00061728.pdf |date=2020-02-12 }} )</ref> Physicist [[John Ellis (physicist, born 1946)|John Ellis]] claims<ref> {{cite journal |first=John |last=Ellis |date=2002 |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |title=Physics gets physical (correspondence) |volume=415 |page=957 |doi=10.1038/415957b |bibcode=2002Natur.415..957E |issue=6875 |pmid=11875539|doi-access=free }}</ref> to have introduced the acronym "TOE" into the technical literature in an article in ''[[Nature (magazine)|Nature]]'' in 1986.<ref> {{Cite journal |first=John |last=Ellis |date=1986 |journal=Nature |title=The Superstring: Theory of Everything, or of Nothing? |volume=323 |pages=595โ598 |doi=10.1038/323595a0 |bibcode=1986Natur.323..595E |issue=6089|s2cid=4344940 }}</ref> Over time, the term stuck in popularizations of [[theoretical physics]] research.
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