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Old 01-30-2009, 09:48 AM   #375
Greg Anos
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Originally Posted by jbjb View Post
You're completely misisng the point about science. The search for a GUT is not the search for something which violates Godel's theorem - it is simply (!) an attempt to unify the various models that are currently useful at different scales.

There is no "faith" involved here -all science says is that the current models are those of which we are aware which have the best predictive ability. Nothing more, nothing less.

/JB

Pardon, but what would be left unexplained in physics? The whole point of a GUT is to create one theory to explain all aspects of physics. Godel's theorem clearly implies that it can't be done, as there will always be questions unanswerable. I have no problem with Unification Theories, just the idea of a all-encompassing GUT.... But the belief that there can be a GUT, is an act of "faith".
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