Sidelights

It has been awhile since I mentioned Kurt Godel in this on-again off-again excuse for a blog. I was again pondering incompleteness as a theorem in reference to human understanding and the myth of artificial intelligence. Since all computers (machines) work by a finite set of axioms (on-offs or 0 and 1s in binary code) and all finite sets of axioms are mathematically incapable of demonstrating truths within their systems (that can be known to be true by man) computers are incapable of thinking even if thinking were purely mechanistic. It seems rather to point out that men do not think mechanistically – a crushing blow to computer geeks and positivists everywhere.

But what really piqued my curiosity was the paper Godel wrote in 1949 about relativity. Still in the process of researching, but needless to say the physics of a static, rotating universe with a non-zero cosmological constant intrigues me. I’ll keep you posted. . .