Robert Laughlin - What is the Theory of Everything?

It is the Holy Grail of physics: All the particles and forces of nature unified and explained by equations so simple that you can print them on your tee shirt. Are we getting there? What would a 'final theory' of fundamental physics do? And if we find it, what will we know? Will we know everything?

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Robert Betts Laughlin is a theoretical physicist and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University.

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