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A qui la faute ? Ni l’un ni l’autre, pas vrai ? @gleicegkc ❤️
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Even if physics arrived at a theory of everything that was consistent and applied at all scales science wouldn't end. There have been people talking about Gödel incompleteness, but there's a more concrete example we can give. Say you use the theory of everything to model a CPU, then you might be able to prove that under normal conditions it behaves like the abstract machine we model in programming language theory. But what if we want to understand the behavior of a program? The halting problem says there's no algorithm that can say even if the program terminates or not, never mind other important properties about its behavior. So there will always be open problems about this partcular physical system. The universe is more complicated than a CPU, so I'm sure there will be some other interesting physical systems we wouldn't understand completely even if we knew all the laws that govern its behavior.
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RT @AlexKontorovich: As I said in a recent lecture, LaTeX got what I call the "Knuth factor" -- the ratio of the amount of time it takes to…
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@haskallcurry Also the fact that call/cc can provide sort of a computational interpretation to excluded middle makes me think how much I don't understand call/cc
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