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String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Long Bet

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Re: String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Long Bet

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presburger arithmetic is a decidable theory. "This means it is possible to algorithmically determine, for any sentence in the language of Presburger arithmetic, whether that sentence is provable from the axioms of Presburger arithmetic." If you don't understand what the incompleteness theorems say, be wary of citing them.

Good point because of all those unified field theories that use Presburger arithmetic. :clown:

I wasn’t suggesting that they would. I was warning against over-application/interpretation by giving an example of something one might not expect if one interprets the theorems too broadly.

Re: String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Long Bet

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> characteristic radiation from black holes and Creation Wait, did the author just refer to the Big Bang as "Creation" with a capital 'C'? Since when did Judeo-Christian mythology (or whatever mythology you think "Creation with a capital 'C'" means in the author's culture, inferring some creative agent in the "beginnings" of the known universe) become relevant in this article's context?

I also noticed that.
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