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Comment Re:New bands? (Score 1) 361

Division bell from the early 90's - let's face it Pink Floyd just keep getting better, even when they are not together as a band. Floyd and the Beetles were unusual in that they both had two musical geniuses writing their stuff, most other bands consider themselves lucky to have one.

Comment Define: Market (Score 1) 249

Market-based solutions, by definition, do not require government intervention.

An economic market is not a place or a thing, it's a set of rules that govern trade (eg: property law). Forget what you have been taught by Fox news and think about it for two seconds, how is a market even possible without property law?

Comment Principia Mathematica and unprovable truths. (Score 1) 235

"Infinite" in actualized physical terms is meaningless

Set theory is the basic logic maths is built on, it didn't change much for over 2000yrs. About a century ago people like Cantor, Godel, Russell, and many others started looking at set theory and infinities. The line of enquiry culminated with Godel's incompleteness theorem showing that any and every set of things is dependent on something else outside the set, add what is outside the set and you still have something else outside the new set. Godel's discovery that maths is "incomplete" (contains unprovable truths) destroyed what Russell and others had been trying to do with their Principia Mathematica- show that all mathematical truths can be mechanically derived from a set of fundamental axioms (Newton's "clockwork universe").

In other words Godel discovered that (maths says) the Universe (with a capital U) is "turtles all the way down" (and up).

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