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Comment by plank

Sorry. Too many experiences to really buy the logic "it can be done, it has not been done, hence contradiction". Indeed e.g. the proof of Fermat's theorem (Wikipedia: After 358 years of effort by mathematicians, the first successful proof was released in 1994 by Andrew Wiles, and formally published in 1995; it was described as a "stunning advance" in the citation for Wiles's Abel Prize award in 2016.) would be a contradiction of that logic. (Indeed, I am very confident that mathematics is a much more developed a mature field then IT).

The only time such an argument had been yielded and has some value is in my (not so, I guess) humble opinion when I think Fermi used the argument that if there was a lower energy level of water there surely would have been an animal by now that used this extra energy by converting water to this state (although I cannot find a link to this quite so quickly, so perhaps the argument was slightly different).

parent plank 5 years ago

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