On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> In this case even mathematicians, even mathematicians who specialize in >> number theory, would give physics the last word in determining what is true >> and what is not, >> > > > > It would not be physics that showed the proof incorrect, but the existence > of a counter example. > But you only know it's a counter example because a computer, a deterministic machine made of matter that obeys the laws of physics, told you it was a counter example. And like any sane person when the laws of physics tells you something you believe it. > > > Unless you are somehow proposing a strange physical law that interferes > with the final result of the calculation to produce a program that believes > X^4 + Y^4 = Z^4 when otherwise it should not. > A physical law like that would be able to produce physical objects that were logically self contradictory, and I am not proposing that, no sane person would. Even mathematicians would say that physics was the boss and physics was correct and number theory as developed by human beings was just wrong. > > > I don't know how mathematicians and physicists would resolve such a > contradiction. > I do, they would say that somewhere somehow mathematicians had made a mistake. And I know what they would not say, they would not say the laws of physics had made a mistake. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
