We own two copies of 'Gödel, Escher, Bach:: an Eternal Golden Braid', by Douglas Hofstadter, which was where I first really encountered Godel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Esch… (View Post)

Sounds like a really dodgy family, but the bits mentioned are about his father, his uncle and cousin, not him. (View Post)

There's always the possibility that, despite being a genius, Godel fundamentally misunderstood something in the law, and his loophole was not actually a loophole. A bit like Fermat's Last T… (View Post)

We in the UK have always been great at research. Consistently world-class. We are less good at developing that tech. We are poor at marketing products. IMV this comes down to a central point in our n… (View Post)

Nah, I've been proved right on Hyperloop. People have thrown many millions at it, and pretty much every prototype has been abandoned. SpaceX destroyed their test tube years ago. The Boring Compa… (View Post)