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Companion article to original paper: Paradox at the heart of mathematics makes physics problem unanswerable: Gödel’s incompleteness theorems are connected to u
by fitzwatermellow 11y ago
Companion article to original paper:
Paradox at the heart of mathematics makes physics problem unanswerable: Gödel’s incompleteness theorems are connected to unsolvable calculations in quantum physics.
http://www.nature.com/news/paradox-at-the-heart-of-mathematics-makes-physics-problem-unanswerable-1.18983 http://www.nature.com/news/paradox-at-the-heart-of-mathemati...
Toby Cubitt, a "quantum-information theorist" at UCL should win this years relevant username contest ;)
- pavel_lishin 11y agoA great example of nominative determinism.
- ethbro 11y agoTo be fair, his name only collapsed into a determinative state once we looked at it in the context of this article. /pun
- fspeech 11y agoThanks! The companion comment also provides a link to the non-paywalled and full arxiv version: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04573 http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04573
- maxander 11y agoThe companion made clear something that the (abstract of) the original post didn't; this sort of system can't be used to physically perform "hypercomputation," since encoding an undecidable problem requires an infinite lattice. Ah well.