03 March 2004

The ultimate incompleteness of life's meaning

Stephen Hawking now thinks that a final GUTOE is impossible and basis this conclusion on his reading of Godel's incompleteness theorem. Kataphatic theology finds a classmate? the paper is published online under the title Gödel and the end of physics. [The article starts with a formidable warning about not reproducing it in any way but I can't see that linking to the original should be a problem]. Actually it seems to be an acknowledgement that chaos spells the end of the Newtonian hopes of a complete description of the universe, past, present and future, but maybe I missed something reading too quickly ...

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USAican RW Christians misunderstand "socialism"

 The other day on Mastodon, I came across an article about left-wing politics and Jesus. It appears to have been written from a Christian-na...