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Wouldn't that be amazing if the universe developed more and more characteristics as you look for them? Or even, that it's pushed to create something when you do
by BiteCode_dev 6y ago
Wouldn't that be amazing if the universe developed more and more characteristics as you look for them? Or even, that it's pushed to create something when you do?
Infinite playground.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoGodel kind of proved that about Mathematics.
- schmorptron 6y agoThat sounds wild, do you have a link where I can read more about this, or is wikipedia fine to learn about it?
- ArnoVW 6y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompletenes... TLDR: you can have a mathematics that always gives true answers (but that cannot answer everything). Or you can have a mathematics that can answer every possible question (but some answers are wrong, you do not know which). Choose. This dispaired mathematicians of the early 20th century, who had hoped to create 'one mathematics to rule them all'. Of course you can have several disjunct mathematics, each one for the problem you like.
- schmorptron 6y agoOh, cool!
- jl6 6y agoAxioms are the foundational assumptions from which formal systems of mathematics are built. Some systems of axioms are unable to prove the truth or falsity of some statements within that system. But you can add such statements to your set of axioms to form a new, larger formal system, which in turn has other indeterminate statements, and so on, thus building, in GP’s terms, an infinite playground of mathematics. Book recommendation: Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter.
- ffhhj 6y agoIf there was a single force in the beginning, there might be more forces branching out in the future of the universe, who knows.