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> Can you imagine if it was the other way? "Well I have no idea what it means, but they said these few sheets of math would be interesting to you and I thought
by wolfgke 8y ago
> Can you imagine if it was the other way? "Well I have no idea what it means, but they said these few sheets of math would be interesting to you and I thought you'd like to have them."
I can easily imagine that there exist lots of math nerds with a love for alien conspiracies in the internet who are keen on decoding these formulas.
- kristopolous 8y agoI'd imagine something actually revolutionarily useful would probably have controversial assumption breaking conventions that people would be very skeptical of along with some novel concepts and definitions most wouldn't see any value or sense in. If this were to actually happen, I think most people would discount it as gibberish because it would appear to be wrong things based on inventiveness and misunderstanding. Which if someone with a fields medal published you take seriously but if it's someone who works retail and is talking about aliens, you're probably going to ignore. There's a twilight zone episode about that where someone travels back in time to prevent things but isn't taken seriously and can't stop disasters.
- jtolmar 8y agoYou could go around asking successful mathematicians to write out some of their favorite unsubstantiated hunches and post a compilation of them as an alien message.