POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Quotable : Re: Quotable Server Time
7 Sep 2024 23:28:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Quotable  
From: Darren New
Date: 1 Jun 2008 19:00:36
Message: <48432a14$1@news.povray.org>
somebody wrote:
> Easy. Mathematics can represent *anything*, since you get to make up your
> own axioms.

Except for two things: all the equations are actually pretty simple, 
none of them seem to change.

It's not really the case you can represent *anything* with mathematics. 
You cannot represent God (pretty much by definition of God), and you 
cannot represent a partially-inconsistent system (one that is 
inconsistent sometimes but not other times, or in some places but not 
other places). Just as a couple of offhand examples.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."


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