Gödel's undecidability theorems and the search for a theory of everything — mentioned by defgeneric

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 21:25:16 GMT

I don't know the context, but Claus Kiefer was on the Physics Frontiers podcast recently talking about this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07331 Gödel's undecidability theorems and the search for a theory of everything "I investigate the question whether Gödel's undecidability theorems play a crucial role in the search for a unified theory of physics. I conclude that unless the structure of space-time is fundamentally discrete we can never decide whether a given theory is the final one or not. This is relevant for both canonical quantum gravity and string theory."

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Gödel's undecidability theorems and the search for a theory of everything — mentioned by defgeneric