The Opposition
The greatst obstical that TOE has to overcome is the sentiment of the antiscience movement. Now, antiscience is't a matter of not believing in science, but instead it is a way of viewsing science in modern life. Antiscience (often also termed antitechnology) critisze scientific advancment, saying that we
...increase rather than diminish our helplessness, unleashing forced we cannot control (Passmore, p25).
TOE is often viewd as a pursuit of something incomprehensible, who's applications, once discovered, will be too powerful for human direction. Passmore explained it quite well in his work Science and it�s Critics, which was actually written beofre the real push for a TOE. Looing at the whole of science, he said�
They assume, that is, that whatever is must be for human use. But least speices can be humanly useful. In contrast to such questions as "Why is it better for the planets to move in ellipses than in circles?" we could now set aside as abserd, as asking a question which, in relation to plantes, has no application. Our feeling of �homelessness� in a world which, until human artifcats is not made for [strickly] us, gives its imputes to a great deal of antiscience metaphysics, which its object to make the universe something which men and women feel "at home (p11-12)."