Re:Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [v...
by symplee on Friday April 17, 2020 @02:47PM
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Can you give some examples of axioms in pure math that run completely counter to our physical world? For example:
or
Note that the original forms of the above axioms "make sense" to us because everything in our physical experience agrees with them. So when you said that the "physical counterpart ... is immaterial", I was curious to see an example of a "physically impossible" axiom.
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Re:Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [v...
by red75prime on Friday April 17, 2020 @03:58PM
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Most of large cardinal axioms.