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5 Sep 2024 09:24:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Greg Egan does it again  
From: Darren New
Date: 29 Aug 2009 23:34:19
Message: <4a99f33b$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Premise: In reality, mathematical truths are undecided until embodied in 
> a physical system, 

Pretty cool. An example of an actually unprovable truth that isn't 
completely contrived:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%E2%80%93Harrington_theorem

Ramsey's Theorem in almost english at the start, that might explain why you 
might care:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey%27s_theorem


-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Understanding the structure of the universe
    via religion is like understanding the
     structure of computers via Tron.


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