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When I rant about it, I claim his theorem says "any system that reference parts of itself is either incomplete or inconsistent," and that the universe is such a system, as we're a part of it, and refer to parts of it.

So therefore, the universe is either full of magic (in a system with inconsistency, anything can happen), or mystery (there are true things that we can never prove).

My belief is that the quest to find a unified physics that describes everything is provably impossible due to Godel's theorem.

And on the rare occasions when I look for evidence of God, the fact that one of the things we can know for sure - is that we can't know everything - provides about as much comfort as I need.

parent quizotic 9 years ago

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