On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Clifford Pickover (mathematical biologist) once did an interview with > Godel, and a few weeks later, had a dream in which he and Godel were > playing chess, and in the dream Godel swept his arm across the chessboard > knocking all the pieces over. Pickover said he woke up an noted the time. > Later that morning he said he was informed of Godel's passing, which > happened to be the same time as his dream. Godel also believed in an > afterlife (crazy?) but only if the universe rotated. It does not appear to > rotate. > Godel discovered in 1949 that if the universe rotated then according to Einstein's General Theory of relativity closed timelike curves would exist, in other words time machines would exist and it would be arbitrary to give one event the "cause" label and another event the "effect" label, you could switch the labels if you wanted; but if the universe does not rotate, and apparently it doesn't, then Godel's discovery is of little importance. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
