GMO, a London-based hedge fund that is presumably shorting Chinese stocks, has released a searing analysis of the nation’s credit problems. You can read it in full here. A short section of the ...

Why is string theory said to be unprovable? originally appeared on Quora - the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Jay ...

In 1931, the logician Kurt Gödel showed that, in any system of axioms that is expressive enough to model arithmetic, some true statements will be unprovable 1. And in the following decades ...

In a nutshell, provability is a weaker concept than truth. Adding additional axioms doesn’t solve the problem: new true-but-unprovable statements inevitably arise. But what if we have a ...

It may not surprise everyone—there are all sorts of unprovable things in everyday life—but for mathematicians, this idea was a shock. After all, they can construct their own world from a few ...

"He said/she said" allegations are proving to be enormously frustrating for many NPR listeners when it comes to the claims and counter-claims around Sen. John Kerry. Most of NPR's reporting on ...

DNA from an "unprovable" rape case was used to make an arrest in "one of the oldest cold case murders in the country" to be solved with the help of DNA, prosecutors in Washington state said.

It is unprovable for the simple reason that the election wasn’t stolen. It is as unprovable as the idea that the sun is actually made out of popcorn. If there was attention and income to be ...

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