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Comment author: jsbennett86 03 October 2013 05:07:22AM 25 points [-]

Him: We can't go back. We don't understand everything yet.

Her: "Everything" is a little ambitious. We barely understand anything.

Him: Yeah. But that's what the first part of understanding everything looks like.

Randall Munroe - Time

Comment author: Alejandro1 03 October 2013 01:48:39PM 13 points [-]

Followed by:

Him: We walked along the sea for days and we didn't learn anything. Up here we're learning lots.

Her: We haven't learned why the sea rose.

Him: But maybe we were never going to.

Him: There's food and water here. I don't want to go all the way back down, walk along the sea for a few more days, then have to turn around.

Him: Maybe the sea is too big to understand. We can't answer every question.

Her: No, But I think we can answer any question.

Comment author: Sengachi 21 October 2013 12:28:40PM 0 points [-]

That last part is the most important.

We can't answer every question.

No, but I think we can answer any question.

Comment author: Jiro 21 October 2013 02:51:57PM 2 points [-]

Cool, what is an accurate proof of P=NP?

Comment author: Baughn 06 November 2013 09:48:36PM *  1 point [-]

Is there a finite proof for or against? If so, we will most likely find it.

Is there a finite proof that there is no such proof? That would be weird and unfortunate, but then the answer is "Mu".

Is there an infinite proof? Well, um. In this case I'd probably argue that the proof doesn't matter, and you can't tell anyway.

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