Timeline for Can pure maths create new theories in physics or does the "idea" ALWAYS come before the math?
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| Feb 12, 2011 at 17:10 | comment | added | Johannes | you jump to a wrong conclusion here. This reasoning should lead you to the conclusion that we can have a TOE (the most fundamental laws of nature), yet we can't turn this TOE into a crystal ball. In other words, uncomputability will limit the application of a TOE. | |
| Feb 12, 2011 at 15:08 | comment | added | anna v | @johannes Well as an example using the form I learned it, 50 years ago. It was "the set of all sets is open". If we have a TOE then the set of its solutions would be closed, since it is Everything. It then contradicts that "the set of all sets is open". | |
| Feb 12, 2011 at 5:40 | comment | added | Johannes | Godel's theorems have nothing to do with the question "can there be a TOE?" | |
| Feb 11, 2011 at 18:37 | comment | added | wsc | I wish I could upvote this 10 times, if only for the image I now have of snooty grammarians sneering "Ah, but Romeo and Juliet is merely applied grammar and syntax!" | |
| Feb 9, 2011 at 12:28 | history | answered | anna v | CC BY-SA 2.5 |