Stephen Hawking on the End of Physics

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http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/astro/news/20030308news%5CStephenHawking20030308.htm

Well uh.. there you go. :P

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The first thing that I notice, which has a very psychedelic implication in it, is the notion that, since we and our models of the universe are within the universe, we're ultimately likenable to Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem which states that no formulation of arithmetic can describe itself completely, but instead must use a higher external formulation. This sounds very transcendental, when applied to this world. Maybe to explain the laws of physics that we see, we need to transcend to another level, with it's own inconsistencies, but which says that this level is consistent and here's how. Ofcourse to explain that level we'd need to transcend still higher, etc. etc. but hey thats the fun of life. :)

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And while I'm on the topic:

Orions Arm has an interesting future timeline of physical theories:

Modern physics,

Information physics - a theory describing the universe in terms of information and processes, perhaps derived from Wolframs "New Kind of Science",

Topological physics - physics as topological structure, physics as subject to meta-laws of physics, i.e. physics itself as something with a behavior; true theoretically "metaphysics" (very transcendental sounding, this one),

Torsion theory - Studying the interaction of different physices, possibly equivalent to toposophy (the study of different modes of thought) which would imply a direct equivalence of physics and consciousness (very psychedelic sounding I'd say).