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Do Physicists Know What Space Is?

Fred-Rick
4 min readMay 1, 2024

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You can see here what many physicists cannot see.

Photo by Ju Guan on Unsplash

Physicists are just people. Sometimes they get so excited about their work, they cross the line of science and follow a path into another area and then not even notice it.

Gödel (Einstein’s best buddy) proved about 100 years ago that there are no Completenesses. He used mathematics to show that not even the field of mathematics is a completeness.

Don’t get me wrong. There is nothing missing in mathematics. Yet mathematics is specific and cannot cover everything there is. Mathematics is limited to expressing information in a mathematical manner only, enormously large its reach otherwise may be.

All systems are incomplete. Mathematics is not the system of the alphabet. The alphabet is not the system of facial expressions. Biology is not the same as Physics.

Many people do not realize that all systems are always incomplete (though, again, none of them is missing anything). Simply because each system is system specific.

Folks tend to not pay attention to language, and that may get them into trouble. Physicists are no exception. They cross the line of one system and get the help of a different system to fill the gap that automatically exists in their first system.

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