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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
How do we know this? Is there some source you could point me to with the proof? I'd be interested to read it.
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This
Wired article has some of the details.
From having no proof that there's any upper bound on infinite pair distance, we've gone in a couple of years to having an upper bound of 600. The big step was getting a finite bound, of course, which was by a single mathematician, Yitang Zhang, who developed a proof that there were an infinite number of prime pairs separated by at most 70 million.
It may be that in the next few years we'll see a proof of the prime pairs conjecture (that there are an infinite number of prime pairs P and Q where Q=P+2).