Is the unified theory so compelling that it brings about its own existence?” st:
with the theory, of everything, that would be at the core of all natural laws, would have to come the power, energy the theatre to enact it.
In some form, the energy that was used to make the material universe must have carried instruction how ro shape it with it., or at least the limitation
You quoted Hawking. an earlier great authoritative thinker, A.E. at least in his allegaries talked as if " Der Alte" the "ancient one" was the source of the laws he tried to define. The laws, or preferably THE law, that govern the universe.
May be he gave up on that, or challenged a believer, when he wrote in 1915: "Where is the old Jehovah?", reacting to the carnage in the trenches. but
here we are being governed by these laws,