Is the universe conservative?

[martdowd at aol.com]

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Monroe eskew writes

Honestly I think it is because it is abstract mathematics, not a empirical domain where we just look and see. When was the last time you picked up a level of L and looked inside to check for inaccessibles?
 
 See sections 3 and 4 of https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313588697
Martin Dowd
 
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From: Monroe Eskew <monroe.eskew at univie.ac.at>
To: martdowd at aol.com
Sent: Wed, Oct 7, 2020 9:28 pm
Subject: Re: Is the universe conservative?


> On 08.10.2020, at 00:47, martdowd at aol.com wrote:
> 
> However it is of interest to try to understand why we can neither "see" indiscernibles, nor prove they don't exist.  Why should they "creep in" when the cumulative hierarchy is extended to an omega_1-Erdos cardinal?  Why aren't they apparent, independently of any large cardinal hypotheses?

Honestly I think it is because it is abstract mathematics, not a empirical domain where we just look and see. When was the last time you picked up a level of L and looked inside to check for inaccessibles?
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