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It might apply if P=NP or the Riemann hypothesis were remotely the same thing. An open mathematical conjecture has uncertainty about whether effort into crackin
by andrewflnr 7y ago
It might apply if P=NP or the Riemann hypothesis were remotely the same thing. An open mathematical conjecture has uncertainty about whether effort into cracking it will produce fruit. That's entirely different from a physical theory where it certainly cannot be tested.
- chr1 7y agoAny physical theory that cannot be tested is a mathematical theory that can produce results useful in other places. In general all of theoretical physics is mathematics that takes inspiration from experiments, and takes shortcuts when proving theorems:).