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Old 01-30-2009, 08:44 AM   #364
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
A "GUT" (Grand Unified Theory - aka "theory of everything") is a theory which "unifies" the four "fundamental forces" (gravity, electromagnetism, weak and strong nuclear forces) with quantum mechanics. Godel's work certainly does not prove (to the best of my knowledge) that this cannot be done. His work was more concerned with showing that any system of mathematics had to have axioms, if I recall correctly.
Some physicists have used Gödel's work to suggest that it cannot be done:

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/strings02/dirac/hawking/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_...teness_theorem

though they have not done so without refute.

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Marc
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