Re: JSH: Headlines around the world
- From: David C. Ullrich <ullrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 14:08:47 -0600
On 5 Feb 2006 10:45:31 -0800, jstevh@xxxxxxx wrote:
Let's just say for the sake of argument that mathematicians just came
out and acknowledged that through accidents of history and subtlety of
some difficult concepts an erroneous group of techniques became
dominant in number theory.
Fine, let's assume that for the sake of argument.
That news would make headlines around the world.
I doubt it. 99.99 percent of the people on the planet would
yawn - the few who'd realize that "number theory" referred
to something other than the arithmetic they learned in
first grade would wonder for a second what number theory
was, and then go back to the ball game on TV.
Now though, there is quiet, so let's look at the other way this can
work out, as mathematicians can instead try to ignore the result.
Then, as history shows, the result will emerge eventually as there is
over 10,000 years of human civilization where these kinds of battles
have played out, and the side opposing the truth, has always lost.
[yadda yadda yadda snipped]
You will not succeed in blocking the knowledge. But if you attempt to
do so, when you are broken, you lose so much.
Now I'm confused. I thought this was all just hypothetical.
So why bother?
Why not just tell the truth now?
Why fight the future?
Nothing else to do on a Sunday afternoon, why _not_ fight
the future?
James Harris
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David C. Ullrich
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