NOVA | The Elegant Universe | Watch the Program | PBS

NOVA | The Elegant Universe | Watch the Program | PBS This show about String Theory is awesome. Awesome. Please. Well, here goes an attempt at a thought it gave me: Godel and The Physicists Goedel in a second for goodball's like me: "What it does say is that every consistent axiomatic system which is complex enough to include arithmetic contains a true statement that cannot be proved within the system" Quantum mechanics and relativity are two different sets of laws that were developed for different sets of information: one set that developed when the information was derived from the very small and short-lived atomic and subatomic particles, and one set developed when the information was derived from the very heavy, large and long lasting planets and stars and galaxies. These "worlds" are normally quite seperate and so the fact that the theories don't relate is no biggie, from a practical standpoint in most cases. But they both describe the same stuff-- things, ya know, stuff you can do stuff with. Stuff is the stuff that has mass, duration, and extension. Grammar fails. Ack, my keyboard just started deleting... So lemmie skip something for now... String Theory is the unprovable true statement. Also, if science is the provable testable, and philosophy is not, then what does goedel tell us about the relationship between the two?