On the problem of a physical “theory of everything”

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ronaldheld

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Jul 23, 2012, 7:42:25 AM7/23/12
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is there any meaning to this?
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On 7/23/2012 4:42 AM, ronaldheld wrote:
arxiv:1207.4520
is there any meaning to this?
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"Undecidable" means that neither the proposition or its negation is provable from the axioms.� Presumably the corresponding physical fact is decided, and knowable by some measurement.� So it just means that no set of axioms will be able to entail all physical facts, i.e. no "Theory of Everything" will be complete (which is not at all surprising).

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