Re: Han's startling new set theory.

Martin Shobe wrote:

> On 18 Aug 2005 14:25:10 -0700, Han.deBruijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > And for the rest: if Nature can prove its Consistency, so can we.
>
> I've never seen nature prove its own consistency. Care to show me
> this proof?

That's actually very simple. Suppose that nature _wasn't_ consistent.
Then there would be a paradox. And from a paradox everything follows
as a consequence. Thus everything could happen. But we know that not
everything can happen in nature & we call this "the laws of nature".

Nature - or the real world - is the most consistent system that was
ever devised. It's astonishing complicated and amazingly consistent.

Has anybody of you ever looked outside the windows of your office ?

Physics is the study of that nature, the theory of it. Which is not
the same as nature itself. Unlike contemporary mathematics, physics
is always referring to something _outside_ it, and you should never
forget this (yet many of you do) when reading the mantra:

> > A little bit of Physics would be NO Idleness in Mathematics.
>
> >I keep repeating this mantra, in the somewhat desperate hope that it
> >will sink into your stubborn brains within a century or so. Physics
> >has _everything_ to do with a _provable consistency_ of mathematics.
>
> Physics has very little to do with consistancy.

Read the _whole_ sentence. I'm talking about "A little bit of Physics".
Herewith I mean Physics at a very basic level, no GR, no QM, no black
holes, no quarks. Simple things, such as the fact that infinity cannot
be measured by any physical (read: bodily) device.

Han de Bruijn

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