Gregory Chaitin Lecture Carnegie-Mellon University 2000 Pt 5

School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 2000

Historical Introduction --- A Century of Controversy Over the Foundations of Mathematics
G.J. Chaitin's 2 March 2000 Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture. The speaker was introduced by Manuel Blum. The lecture was videotaped; there is an edited transcript which appeared on pp. 12-21 of a special issue of Complexity magazine on ``Limits in Mathematics and Physics'' (Vol. 5, No. 5, May/June 2000).
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~chaitin

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[jonesgerard]

@Entertainmentwf This is devastating for the type of person who makes science into their God. Only to discover its failure at a fundamental level, so they deny the truth and swallow a lie about reality.

[Entertainmentwf]

@securezone This is not B.S. he is talking about the foundation of computer science. Have respect for the foundations of the science here. Would you say the same about if an individual were to talk about the foundations of modern physics?

[securezone]

Although you got negative hits, however, I agree with you. I see no point behind this BS. He didn't give enough intro

[calmclam123]

thank you for posting this

it has awakened my jmind for the first time in like thirty years to the love of maths

this guy has a wry dry wit and just speaks his mind

many thanks again

[ANTALIFE]

So in other words Einstein was not a big fan of statistics.

[ANTALIFE]

Quantum Mechanics is just another branch of Classical Physics, however in Quantum Mechanics the outcome of a particular event has a sertain probability to it. Because of this Einstein (the inventor of Quantum mechanics) did not like this theory as he was trying to derive an "equasion of everything" that produced a full anwswer on the place and velocity of an atom, rather than calculating the Probability of an atom being at 'that' place and travaling at 'that' velocity.

[ANTALIFE]

Quantum Mechanics is just another branch of Classical Physics, however in Quantum Mechanics the outcome of a particular event has a sertain probability to it. Because of this Einstein (the inventor of Quantum mechanics) did not like this theory as he was trying to derive an "equasion of everything" that produced a full anwswer on the place and velocity of an atom, rather than calculating the Probability of an atom being at 'that' place and travaling 'that' velocity.

[asher99]

Sowhats your point?