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What are the practical implications of a unifying theory of everything?

I hear all the time about researching being done on a unified theory, but if such a theory were found what could we potentially get from that new found understanding?
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There are not obvious immediate practical applications like "When we have this equation we'll be able to build a machine that can turn off gravity." When you're doing basic science (ie science for the sake of science) you don't know where it will lead. The guys developing quantum mechanics in the 1920s didn't know that one day the equations would be applied to silicon crystals and lead to ubiquitous computing. Paul Dirac didn't know that the positron predicted by his equation would one day be used to detect cancer.