A team of physicists claims to have killed the simulation hypothesis with math. According to Science Daily, researchers led ...

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Exploring the possibilities of unfamiliar artefacts and perceptual technologies, the incompleteness theorem promises to distract and disorientate in the service of a feedback system of mirrors, lights ...

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, which proved that no formal mathematical system can demonstrate every mathematical truth, is a landmark of modern thought. It's a simple but profound statement, but the ...

At 24, Kurt Gödel established himself as perhaps the greatest logician of the 20th century. Standing against the intellectual currents of his time, he unveiled two theorems in 1930 showing that a ...

64 64 people viewed this event. Dr. Juris Steprans (Mathematics and Statistics) looks at logic in science fiction, including both the misconceptions and insights which scifi has produced about Godel’s ...

Scientists at the University of British Columbia Okanagan say they’ve found a mathematical limit that shuts down the Simulation Hypothesis entirely. Drawing on Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, their ...

In his “incompleteness theorems,” Austrian mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) showed that even in mathematical systems, all truths cannot be proven and are therefore inconsistent and ...

The Science of Science Fiction series is presented in collaboration with York University's Faculty of Science. Dr. Juris Steprâns looks at logic in science fiction, including both the misconceptions ...