SMRTR Science & EngineeringNov 29, 2024Scientific American

Math and Physics Can't Prove All Truths

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Physicists found a particle system with an unpredictable phase transition connected to the uncomputable Chaitin constant Ω, showing how uncomputable numbers can appear in physical systems and linking Gödel's incompleteness theorem to physics.

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