Re: Skolem's Paradox and why is math the way it is?

From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (spamtrap_at_library.lspace.org.invalid)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 21:48:23 -0300

In <39d6e584.0410081125.54bd8b57@posting.google.com>, on 10/08/2004
   at 12:25 PM, troubled6man@yahoo.com (J.E.) said:

>Your comments are very vague. People are introducing unobservable
>phenomena to make theories where observations are consistent with the
>matter we do see? Why? What is the point?

The point is that they believe that they can devise better theories by
doing so.

>As for not doing better than GR, I've seen claims of better results
>from people whose work I don't understand.

Well, if NASA doesn't kill it there's some instrumentation that might
get us closer to an answer. I know that B-D didn't fair too well when
tested, but that could change with more accurate measurements. IAC,
the real problem is Quantum Gravity, and I'm not aware of any current
approach that comes remotely close to your criteria. 

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