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Whenever people say that there's new research that threatens to crumble the foundations of mathematics (like Banach–Tarski) or physics, I try to remind myself t
by tw1010 9y ago
Whenever people say that there's new research that threatens to crumble the foundations of mathematics (like Banach–Tarski) or physics, I try to remind myself that this is mostly just academic. Don't get me wrong, it's important work. But bridges and buildings won't collapse as a consequence of accepting or denying the axiom of choice.
- jjoonathan 9y agoTime travel could collapse (or build) a great number of bridges and buildings. Nuclear physics, a comparatively trivial academic accomplishment, did collapse a great number of bridges and buildings, and stood a very real chance of collapsing all of the bridges and buildings. It still might.
- SCHiM 9y agoIt will, it's now simply a numbers game. Let's not kid ourselves, one day a two nuclear powers will escalate and then we'll get to see if our doomsday predictions were correct ;)