It is important, however, to understand this particular failure of the idea of unified science, because when scientists (and others) often think about a "theory of everything," they are envisaging a set of principles from which explanations of all natural phenomena may be derived.
Though it does not yet quite talk the talk of "digital first" – looking forward, like the Journal Register group in the US or the Guardian here in Britain, to the days when dead trees are left to lie and paperless news organisations bestride the net – it is, nevertheless, envisaging a certain sort of future: one where everything changes, everything is up for grabs.
Ferguson had delivered everything United envisaged when they brought him south.
PB The Minnesota Vikings got to see Teddy Bridgewater under centre from the start, and, boy, was it everything they envisaged back in May.
The Libertines were as good at predicting their own demise in song as they were powerless to stop it happening: with the audience bellowing them en masse, the lyrics seem more affecting now that everything they envisaged has actually happened.
What are these people envisaging?
If so, I would LOVE a Best of British theme - it makes me envisage iconic musicians to Henry VIII and everything in between.
Hillcoat and his production designer, Chris Kennedy, have done a bang-up job in translating McCarthy's images to the screen; the wintry atmosphere, the scarred landscape, the deserted stores and dwellings, everything is just as you envisaged it.
It might be a very young theatre director putting on a big play for the first time and they need everything to be exactly as they envisaged it.
Facebook envisages a future in which we all broadcast almost everything to almost everybody.
