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questfortruth

Well-Known Member
Now we have two questions:

1. Is the Riemann Hypothesis true?
2. Does anyone know if Riemann Hypothesis is true?

Answering options for the second question:
A. ``the answer to the second question is still unknown'',
B. ``yes, someone knows''.
Impossible answer: ``No, nobody knows.''

Therefore, there must be someone who knows the answer to this and any other question.

If earthlings do not know whether the Riemann Hypothesis is true, then it is possible that aliens know. Or we will find out in the future. Therefore, there can be no answer: "nobody knows."
The question was: ``does anyone know (in future, or present, or past, or in distant galaxy)''?
 
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oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
Now we have two questions:

1. Is the Riemann Hypothesis true?
2. Does anyone know if Riemann Hypothesis is true?
Don't know.
No idea.
Don't know anything about this hypothesis.

Answering options for the second question:
A. ``the answer to the second question is still unknown'',
B. ``yes, someone knows''.
Impossible answer: ``No, nobody knows.''

Therefore, there must be someone who knows the answer to this and any other question.
Hang on! Stop there!
Only evidence can prove or disprove any case, incident or claim.

A Hypothesis is just waffle.

Now, there's plenty of 'evidence' to support the existence of Jesus.
Jesus was a real person based upon the 'balance of probabilities'

Any hypothesis can't help if it doesn't just show what evidence there is.
 

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
The Riemann Hypothesis for zombies and badgers!

The Riemann Hypothesis states that all non trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function have a real part equal to 0.5. ... For example if you have a function f(x) = x - 1, then x = 1 is a zero of this function because using it as x gives 1 - 1 = 0.
 

questfortruth

Well-Known Member
If earthlings do not know whether the Riemann Hypothesis is true, then it is possible that aliens know. Or we will find out in the future. Therefore, there can be no answer: "nobody knows."
 

viole

Ontological Naturalist
Premium Member
Now we have two questions:

1. Is the Riemann Hypothesis true?
2. Does anyone know if Riemann Hypothesis is true?

Answering options for the second question:
A. ``the answer to the second question is still unknown'',
B. ``yes, someone knows''.
Impossible answer: ``No, nobody knows.''

Therefore, there must be someone who knows the answer to this and any other question.

If earthlings do not know whether the Riemann Hypothesis is true, then it is possible that aliens know. Or we will find out in the future. Therefore, there can be no answer: "nobody knows."
Ergo, Jesus.

Ciao

- viole
 

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
'We don't know' reflects our knowledge at a moment in time. With further information it may change.

In 1900 we did not know about continental drift, now we do.
Sorry for my nonsensical question :) It was maybe an attempt to actually say we can not know what we do not know if we don't study :)

But I do agree with what you saying in this thread :)
 

ratiocinator

Lightly seared on the reality grill.
Now we have two questions:

1. Is the Riemann Hypothesis true?
2. Does anyone know if Riemann Hypothesis is true?

Answering options for the second question:
A. ``the answer to the second question is still unknown'',
B. ``yes, someone knows''.
Impossible answer: ``No, nobody knows.''

Therefore, there must be someone who knows the answer to this and any other question.

If earthlings do not know whether the Riemann Hypothesis is true, then it is possible that aliens know. Or we will find out in the future. Therefore, there can be no answer: "nobody knows."
The question was: ``does anyone know (in future, or present, or past, or in distant galaxy)''?

Nonsense. It's perfectly possible that nobody knows. We simply don't know if anybody (if you're going to include hypothetical aliens) knows or not.

What has any of this nonsense got to do with Jesus?
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
Now we have two questions:

1. Is the Riemann Hypothesis true?
2. Does anyone know if Riemann Hypothesis is true?

Answering options for the second question:
A. ``the answer to the second question is still unknown'',
B. ``yes, someone knows''.
Impossible answer: ``No, nobody knows.''

Therefore, there must be someone who knows the answer to this and any other question.

If earthlings do not know whether the Riemann Hypothesis is true, then it is possible that aliens know. Or we will find out in the future. Therefore, there can be no answer: "nobody knows."
The question was: ``does anyone know (in future, or present, or past, or in distant galaxy)''?


Why the click bait title?
 

Evangelicalhumanist

"Truth" isn't a thing...
Premium Member
Now we have two questions:

1. Is the Riemann Hypothesis true?
2. Does anyone know if Riemann Hypothesis is true?

Answering options for the second question:
A. ``the answer to the second question is still unknown'',
B. ``yes, someone knows''.
Impossible answer: ``No, nobody knows.''

Therefore, there must be someone who knows the answer to this and any other question.

If earthlings do not know whether the Riemann Hypothesis is true, then it is possible that aliens know. Or we will find out in the future. Therefore, there can be no answer: "nobody knows."
The question was: ``does anyone know (in future, or present, or past, or in distant galaxy)''?
It is simply ludicrous to make the statement that "No, nobody knows," is an impossible answer.
 

ratiocinator

Lightly seared on the reality grill.
One can never prove, that "nobody knows the answer to Riemann Hypothesis."
Hence, the statement "nobody knows it" is a lie.

:facepalm: You really, really don't get logic at all. Not being able to prove something doesn't mean that it's impossible for it to be the correct answer.
 

questfortruth

Well-Known Member
Not being able to prove something doesn't mean that it's impossible for it to be the correct answer.
The detective's guiding principle, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writes in ``The Sign of Four'', is:
``When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable,
must be the truth.''

It has zero justification: nobody knows validity of Riemann hypothesis,
then it is wrong to say that. And it will remain wrong forever.

I am sorry, guys, but there is Jesus,
 
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ratiocinator

Lightly seared on the reality grill.
The detective's guiding principle, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writes in ``The Sign of Four'', is:
``When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable,
must be the truth.''

Irrelevant.
It has zero justification: nobody knows validity of Riemann hypothesis,
then it is wrong to say that. And it will remain wrong forever.

Just repeating yourself isn't going to make illogical nonsense make sense. Not being able to justify or prove a possible answer does not mean that it cannot be the right answer.
I am sorry, guys, but there is Jesus,

And you still haven't made any connection between all this silliness about the Riemann hypothesis and Jesus.
 

questfortruth

Well-Known Member
Not being able to justify or prove a possible answer does not mean that it cannot be the right answer.
Wrong. If something can never be proven wrong, that something is true.
The undecisive conjectures are being proven by time. If during very long time a conjecture causes no problem, that conjecture is true.
 

ratiocinator

Lightly seared on the reality grill.
Wrong. If something can never be proven wrong, that something is true.

I have a totally undetectable, invisible dragon in my garage. Since you can never prove that to be false, by what passes for 'logic' in your mind, it must be true.

I call him Eric, do you want to say hello to him?
The undecisive conjectures are being proven by time. If during very long time a conjecture causes no problem, that conjecture is true.

Equally illogical.
 
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