General Theory of Everything
The General Theory of Everything (Polish: Ogólna Teoria Wszystkiego) is a sarcastic coinage of Stanisław Lem introduced in 1966. The biographical sketch of Ijon Tichy in "The Twenty-eighth Voyage" of Tychy's Star Diaries says that a grandfather of Ijon, Jeremiasz Tichy, "decided to create the General Theory of Everything, and nothing stopped him from doing this".[1]
Apart from being a precursor of the term "Theory of Everything," the term GTE was used to characterize Lem's essays of fundamental character, such as The Philosophy of Chance[2] and Science Fiction and Futurology,[3] as well as the pseudoscientific work of Polish scifi writer Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, Jednolita teoria czasoprzestrzeni ["The Uniform Theory of the Spacetime"] (1990)[4][5]
References
- ^ Krzysztof J. Kilian , "Sny o teoriach ostatecznych a problem przyszłości filozofii, ("Dreams about Ultimate Theories and the Problem of the Future of Phylosophy") ΣΟΦΙΑ, no. 8, 2008
- ^ An annotation to Filozofia przypadku. Tom 1
- ^ "Fantastyka i futurologia", at Lem's official website
- ^ Jan Czerniawski, "Świat według Snerga", Nowa Fantastyka, July 1991
- ^ Lech Keller, "Przyczynek do biografii Stanisława Lema" (retrieved February 16, 2020), Acta Polonica Monashiensis (Monash University: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) Volume 3 Number 2, R&S Press, Melbourne, Vic., 2019, p. 9
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- The Man from Mars (1946)
- Time Not Lost
- The Astronauts (1951)
- The Magellanic Cloud (1955)
- The Investigation (1959)
- Eden (1959)
- Return from the Stars (1961)
- Solaris (1961)
- Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (1961)
- The Invincible (1964)
- Highcastle (1966)
- His Master's Voice (1968)
- The Futurological Congress (1971)
- Professor A. Dońda (1973)
- The Chain of Chance (1975)
- Golem XIV (1981)
- Observation on the Spot (1982)
- Fiasco (1986)
- Peace on Earth (1987)
- "End of the World at Eight O'Clock" (1947)
- The Star Diaries (1957)
- "The Hunt " (1950s)
- "Terminus" (1961)
- "Lymphater's Formula" (1961)
- Fables for Robots (1964)
- The Cyberiad (1965)
- Tales of Pirx the Pilot (1966)
- "The Mask" (1974)
- Dialogs (1957)
- Summa Technologiae (1964)
- The Philosophy of Chance (1968)
- Science Fiction and Futurology (1970)
- Microworlds (1984)
- A Perfect Vacuum (1971)
- Imaginary Magnitude (1973)
- One Human Minute (1986)
- Korzenie (1940s)
- Do You Exist, Mr. Jones? (1955)
- Faithful Robot (1961)
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