Abstract
The grandest prize for the theoretician and the chief intellectual glory of humankind is the complete and consistent theory of the universe. Being complete, this theory includes everything in the visible and invisible universe. Being consistent, this theory accurately arranges and unites the facts. Consequently, the complete and consistent theory explains both how and why physical reality is the way it is and not any other way. In so doing, the complete and consistent theory overturns flawed assumptions and obsolesces ad hoc theories. Here, I outline the characteristics of the complete and consistent theory and discuss issues and assumptions that interfere with its emergence and acceptance.
Erik David Andrulis