Alan Turing - "God is Dead" - Tribute to the Great Enigma

Hello everybody,

I felt I should make a tribute to if not one of the fathers of Computer Science, and the ever famous "Halting Problem" using the Turing Machine. He is known for being the founder of the concept of the computer alongside others such as John Von Neumann but, noted as the father of it. Through his work on decidability and demonstrating the work of Kurt Godel in the form of logical machines. Not only was his mathematical and foundational computer science progress was important, he stood up strongly for his beliefs that all people should be able to live their life without hypocrisy of things such as anti-homosexuality, religions and lies. He showed and tried to show us that we are all finite and incomplete, we just need to embrace life for what it is. Also for his efforts in WW2 by decrypting the Enigma machine. Definitely one of my heroes. The british government recently apologized for their actions against Alan Turing due to his homosexuality:

"So on behalf of the British government, and all those who live freely thanks to Alan's work I am very proud to say: we're sorry, you deserved so much better."

Music: "Pieces" by RED (no copyright infringement intended, this is the tribute to the father of computer science and the computer)
Video contributed by BBC (no copyright infringement intended, this is a tribute to a great man), and clips of my own research in visual form on the topics of Goldbach's Conjecture.

Enjoy and thank you Alan Turing for all you have given our world :)

Dan

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[Grak70]

The first minute or two has a great interplay between the music and the footage. But when the song vocals start it all goes downhill. Very distracting. I would also fade out your overlay track when music from the documentary can't be cut out.

Otherwise, I think you had the right idea.

[Entertainmentwf]

Thank you for the critique :). I hoped you enjoyed my tribute to one of the greatest minds in the 20th century :).

[borebox]

I have tears in my eyes as I write this. I am a 56 year old gay man and responding after seeing this for the first time. Wondering if this is available at Barnes and Noble?

[Aspertech]

the fetters of faith...

[Aspertech]

The man who knew too much.

[Entertainmentwf]

@alabenle1 Well sadly none of them were of Turing's capabilities to understand the statements at hand. They were great of course, but no greater than Turing when it came to the field at hand. Turing's work can be applied to things like Gods too. It's dead easy to show that a proof of God will NEVER exist since it's an undecidable statement. You can construct it with the diagonal method by constructing a statement where one can never match terms, and show them not to be complete.

[alabenle1]

"... Religion is a boundary condition.." Galileo, Newton, Einstein an other great scientist who believed in the existance of God may desagree with that statement...

Nevertheless Turing was a great matematician.

[alabenle1]

@MegaGayjesus How do you know God don't exist? It requieres much faith to believe on some scientific theories like the big bang, for example. An infinite universe from an infinitesimal point in void space? come on! thats religion, too.

[gnamp]

I find the two pieces of background music playing together very jarring.

[Sunnyvale877]

So sad, a powerful mind gone forever. Now we fight for every advance, with follower's of his logic laws. Shame! It's a killer!! RIP. Alan Turing....

[Entertainmentwf]

@MegaGayjesus It's a metaphor.

[danielnquinn]

Turing injected an apple with cyanide and then ate it. Is that why Apple Mac has an icon of a bitten apple?

[ElSachinoo]

Alan Turing, you wonderful man, I salute you.