Timeline for On critical reviews of Hawking's lecture "Gödel and the end of the universe"
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| Mar 21, 2018 at 6:54 | comment | added | Alon Amit | @darij Hawking wrote, in that article, “Thus a physical theory is self-referencing, like in Gödel’s Theorem. One might therefore expect it to be either inconsistent or incomplete.” Even at the level of “expecting” things, this “therefore” is just plain false. There’s no reason to expect this. | |
| Mar 14, 2018 at 17:08 | comment | added | darij grinberg | Hawking, as quoted above, uses Gödel's theorem as a metaphor, not as a lemma; I don't see how the criticism applies. In a way, Gödel broke the dam for the idea that some questions may not have a final answer, and that you will always have something left to explore. | |
| Mar 14, 2018 at 10:52 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 14, 2018 at 10:43 | history | answered | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |