Theory of Everything: The Generation Model

The main purpose of this paper is to present the long history of the quest to understand both the composition and the structure of the Universe in terms of the nature of the building blocks of the constituent ordinary matter and the nature of the forces acting between these elementary particles. This quest is essentially to find a ‘Theory of Everything’, i.e. a single framework, which describes all the forces of the cosmos and their interactions between the elementary particles constituting the ordinary matter of the Universe. The long history of the above quest for a ‘Theory of Everything’ is discussed critically with regard to the merit of the essential contributions made towards the ‘Final Theory’. In particular, the negative aspects of each contribution, especially the dubious assumptions that caused the quest to fail to achieve an appropriate ‘Theory of Everything’ in terms of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics and the Standard Model of Cosmology (SMC) will be discussed in detail. Furthermore, it will be demonstrated that the development of an alternative model of particle physics, termed the Generation Model (GM), primarily to overcome many deficiencies of the SM, leads to a successful ‘Theory of Everything’.