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I'm guessing mindcrime's talking about Cantor and Godel and the continuum hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.or
by mattmanser 10y ago
I'm guessing mindcrime's talking about Cantor and Godel and the continuum hypothesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_hypothesis
I remember learning about them in the philosophy of maths, but have no idea if they have any consequences in Physics. And like /u/lasfter I'll stop there before I embarrass myself.
- yk 10y agoProbably, but in my view Godel's theorem basically states that there are limits to axiom systems. (In much the same way that you can not write a web server without touching sockets.) My point is, if it would be necessary to switch to a stronger axiom system than ZFC in physics, then one would do that, without claiming that that stronger system is real.
- mattmanser 10y agoI honestly can't tell if this is utter gibberish or a real comment...
- yk 10y agoYeah, I should stop commenting publicly on an ongoing thought process, before I figured out how to communicate that thought :/ Basically I am drifting towards hard mathematical anti-realism and towards a rather minimal scientific realism. (And when I saw the discussion I jumped the gun...)