----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Stay" <metaweta@gmail.com> To: "math-fun" <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [math-fun] Mathematical cosmos article by Max Tegmark
On 9/26/07, Steve Gray <stevebg@adelphia.net> wrote:
Within acceptability for the past century or so are the violations of intuition in relativity. Outside of all reasonable thinking is that A and not-A can both be true at once.
A="the photon reflected off the semisilvered mirror"
Somewhere in the middle may be the possibility that general relativity and QM may never be reconciled and that perhaps our view of reality will forever require two theories that aren't compatible; I don't think that's logically impossible.
Except that there's *something* happening, and there's no reason to believe that it won't be able to be described.
And no reason not to believe is reason to believe. That's what separates science from religion.