Math is based on certainty, right?
Everyone knows that mathematics is based on the pure rock of certainty, right? Sorry guess again: Gregory Chaitin, New Scientist: The Omega Man, a mathematics researcher at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, has shown that mathematicians can’t actually prove very much at all.
Waiting for the brainiacs to publish the oh-so-close Theory of Everything? Don’t hold your beath because until this gaping hole can be closed there ain’t no such thing.