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What beliefs or hypotheses do you hold strongly despite not feeling confident that you can necessarily prove or evince it? (lemmy.world)

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Let hear them conjects

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know that this isn't what you mean, but paradoxically mathematics has been used to prove that it can't prove everything: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Gödel's incompleteness theorem is one of the main things that I like pointing to when talking about stuff like this, thanks for bringing it up. Its a good supporting piece that helps show there are limits to logic and knowability. I think physics models will eventually have their own version that puts theories of everything in jepoardy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I do think our current physics theories are inaccurate at the extremes. To quote Zach Weinersmith:

Now, we’ve basically got it all worked out, except for small stuff, big stuff, hot stuff, cold stuff, fast stuff, heavy stuff, dark stuff, turbulence, and the concept of time.