13 December 2015 A well-known thereom at the heart of mathematical logic, Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, has deep implications for physics because it makes a fundamental question about matter literally unanswerable. In 1931, Austrian-born mathematician Kurt Gödel proved that some statements are ‘undecidable’, meaning that it is impossible to prove them either true or false within … Continue reading Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem may render a famous physics problem unanswerable