{"id":7574,"date":"2015-02-14T17:26:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7574"},"modified":"2015-03-12T14:38:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T18:38:38","slug":"towards-a-grand-unified-theory-of-mathematics-and-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7574","title":{"rendered":"Towards a Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics and Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A draft of an essay I&#8217;ve written, with plans to submit it to the FQXI essay contest, is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/mathphys.pdf\">here<\/a>.  Constructive comments welcome&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>People who have a take on the subject that has nothing to do with what I&#8217;m writing about are encouraged to submit their own essays to FQXI, but not to post them here.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nUpdate<\/strong>:  Thanks to all commenters for often helpful comments. I&#8217;ve revised the essay a bit, mostly by adding some material at the end, material that to some extent addresses important issues raised by some commenters.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nUpdate<\/strong>:  The essay has been submitted and is posted <a href=\"http:\/\/fqxi.org\/community\/forum\/topic\/2366\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A draft of an essay I&#8217;ve written, with plans to submit it to the FQXI essay contest, is available here. Constructive comments welcome&#8230; People who have a take on the subject that has nothing to do with what I&#8217;m writing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7574\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7595,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7574\/revisions\/7595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}