The God problem (part 2)

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34. I hadn't heard of that before, but it seems right

I don't follow particle physics that closely, but from what I do know, it seems a mess where they add more and more dimensions to the universe to make the sums come out right. Of course, as I suspected my thoughts are far from original. After writing the last post, I googled "Godel" and "particle physics" and got an interesting lecture by Hawking, where he describes it exactly (of course with much more detail and understanding

Godel and the End of the Universe

Here is the part I like

Up to now, most people have implicitly assumed that there is an ultimate theory that we will eventually discover. Indeed, I myself have suggested we might find it quite soon. However, M-theory has made me wonder if this is true. Maybe it is not possible to formulate the theory of the universe in a finite number of statements. This is very reminiscent of Godel's theorem. This says that any finite system of axioms is not sufficient to prove every result in mathematics.

Now this certainly doesn't mean it will lead to some "God" force but there would be philosophical and perhaps theological questions of "why is it that the physical world has hidden from us how it works?"