[FOM] Does 2^{\aleph_0} = 2^{\aleph_1}?

[John Baldwin]

It was suggested at a logic dinner this evening that many combinatorial 
set theorists, especially those interested in cardinal invariants in the 
continuum `believed' that  2^{\aleph_0} = 2^{\aleph_1}.

Do people working in these areas have definite views about the `real' size 
of the 
continuum or are they using various forcing techniques to explore 
relationships?

Another way to put is,  does the program for investigating cardinal 
invariants of the continuum envision that this clarifies the `truth' of 
the continuum hypothesis?





John T. Baldwin
Director, Office of Mathematics Education
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, 
and Computer Science  M/C 249
jbaldwin at uic.edu
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Assistant to the director
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