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Sadly, there is a devastating problem. It comes in the dreaded shape of the Emperor - in The Empire Strikes Back - entrance: Kurt Gödel, (an Austrian-American who married a dancing girl in Vienna before the 2nd world war, and died starving himself to death believing that everyone was poisoning him), and his truly astonishing discovery called the Incompleteness Theorem. I mean the one and only: 'Incompleteness Theorem'. Thought by some to be the highest intellectual achievement of the human mind.
What it proves is that there will always be something beyond the power of maths to prove. So there will never be an equation you can put on your T-shirt like Leon Lederman, another Nobel winner, once hoped.
Sorry, but this is where it gets
serious. Next time you look up at the sky on a clear night, and gaze
beyond the visible stars into the depths of our own universe - spare
a thought for the quarks in your fingertips and how you are intimately
connected with the way this universe is evolving.
Remember also that there are
an infinite number of parallel universes surrounding each quantum
bit of your being as well as the stars and galaxies above you - and
the infinite universes beyond our own.
Then pause to think how it is
all constructed out of mathematical symmetry and consistency, but
also that there is "something" beyond Maths which exists but can never
be proved. What label should we give to it? My own preference would
be the simple expedient of the three letter sequence; god.
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