Editing Theory of everything (section)

==Name==
Initially, the term ''theory of everything'' was used with an ironic reference to various overgeneralized theories. For example, a grandfather of [[Ijon Tichy]] – a character from a cycle of [[Stanisław Lem]]'s [[science fiction]] stories of the 1960s – 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=595–598
 |doi=10.1038/323595a0
 |bibcode=1986Natur.323..595E
 |issue=6089|s2cid=4344940
 }}</ref> Over time, the term stuck in popularizations of [[theoretical physics]] research.