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> How about mathematically proven to be physically impossible? I would argue (as I did in a sibling thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13878107 https:
by JadeNB 10y ago
> How about mathematically proven to be physically impossible?
I would argue (as I did in a sibling thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13878107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13878107) that it is this that can't happen. Mathematics has no power over the real world, only over mathematical models (optionally of the real world). A proof of mathematical impossibility does not constrain the real world; it only allows us to deduce that, if the real world does the mathematically impossible, then our models are wrong (or at least incomplete).