Re: Attempts to Refute Cantor's Uncountability Proof?

Ross A. Finlayson wrote:
Consider Goedel, vis-a-vis incompleteness, and the physicists' notion
of a "Theory of Everything". Apparently, those people never heard of
Goedel, or didn't agree that his results about incompleteness hold in
their case, because they talk about a "Theory of Everything."


David R Tribble wrote:
You're confused. The physicists' TOE deals with unifying gravity and
quantum physics, and while it uses a lot of complex math, it has
nothing to do with set theory.


Ross A. Finlayson wrote:
About a "Theory of Everything", superstrings are mathematical
infinitesimals. Technicolor is a notion that there are particles
comprising quarks and particles comprising those etc ad infinitum, yet
while that is so something along the lines of the atom is a nilpotent
infinitesimal, in a sense.

Uh, no. Superstring theories treat particles as vibrations on the
surfaces of n-dimensional manifolds approximately the size of
the Planck scale, somewhere in the neighborhood of 10^-35 meters.
That's a rather large distance to consider "infinitesimal".

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