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>From: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin)
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Subject: Re: Peano and the commerce of ideas and representations
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Date: 27 Apr 92 12:21:45 GMT
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clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes:


>Also, if I understand Hawking and collaborators correctly, they maintain that  
>this universe exists because it is the only mathematically consistent  
>possibility without boundary conditions.  This rather blurs the distinction  
>between mathematical objects and the physical world.

Hawking believes that the big bang may be a metric (removable)
singularity, and that is not the case. You're observing an interesting
phenomenum here, which--unfortunately--I have some personal experience
with. A physically handicapped person who finds writing difficult will try
to do as much as he can in his head. If an argument gets a little too
complicated, he will drop threads. Hawking's limitations are as remarkable
as his brilliance, and here is a place where a thread has been dropped.


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Harry Erwin
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