LSAT 159 | Section 4 | Reading Comprehension: Q25

RC Question 25 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: The author calls reports that physicists are close to arriving …

DISCUSSION: In the first paragraph, the author explains that reports of a “theory of everything” are misleading because even if such a theory fully explained the nature and interactions of subatomic particles, it still wouldn’t predict or explain complex systems like storms or human behavior.

So the author isn’t saying that it’s impossible, but that knowing parts doesn’t equal understanding the whole.

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1. Too extreme. The author says it’s computationally impossible in practice, not in principle, to track all particles.
2. Partly true but misses the mark. The author does discuss linear vs. nonlinear systems later, but that’s not the reason the “theory of everything” is called misleading.
3. The author explicitly says everything is made of particles (middle of paragraph 1).
4. CORRECT. The theory would only explain subatomic properties and interactions, not the behavior of complex systems, which is why it’s misleading.
5. This is wrong. Modern science studies many systems, but that’s not the reason why the theory is limited.